[Nick Danger]

I'd be interested to hear about what a German/European training experience like that encompassed, if you know.

I don't know any details, he didn't go into it. I got the sense that the idea was that periodic breakdowns in the social order due to wars and whatnot were inevitable, so evey kid should know how to go into the forest and kill to eat, just in case.

[SJackson]

I don't know any details, he didn't go into it. I got the sense that the idea was that periodic breakdowns in the social order due to wars and whatnot were inevitable, so evey kid should know how to go into the forest and kill to eat, just in case.

Makes some sense, though it takes a lot of knowledge to really sustain yourself that way for any period of time.