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10 Learning Mental Endurance for Survival

Text-Dependent Questions 1. Explain how grass and moss might be used as insulators.

2. What can waterproof clothing be made from in an emergency? 3. What might be used to make footwear? 4. Why are cattails so useful?

being overrun by a communist invasion from North Korea. By now, the Marines’ toughness was becoming legendary. In one particular incident, on September 26, 1950, a large force of North Korean tanks and self-propelled guns attacked the positions of the 1st Marine Regiment. Despite a ferocious enemy onslaught, the Marines halted the attack, in the process destroying seven tanks and killing over 500 enemy personnel. Some 12 years later, the Marines were again involved in a war in the Far East: Vietnam. Like in Korea, the Marines were used to try to stop communists from North Vietnam taking over South Vietnam. The Marines fought some of the biggest battles of the entire war. One characteristic about the Marines was evident—they would never surrender. In fact, most Marines would be prepared to die rather than lose the fight. The Vietnam War ended in 1975, but the Marines did not have to wait before they were back in action. In October 1983 they were part of a force which went in to rescue over 1,000 U.S. citizens from the small Caribbean island of Grenada. In 1990 the U.S. Marines were part of the Allied forces that liberated the country of Kuwait in the Middle East from the occupation