• After carefully considering your approach route, make voice contact with the unit as soon as possible. 14-5. COMMUNICATIONS. During your evasion, you may be required to relay your location to higher over unsecure means such as cell phone, radio that has either lost or expired, COMSEC or that has been zeroed) you can use one of the following methods. They can be found in ATOSPINS along with authentication means: Search and Rescue Numeric Encryption Grid. SARNEG is a 10-letter word with no repeating letters; each letter corresponding to a number 0 to 9. Search and Rescue DOT. SARDOT is a geographic location that is used as a reference to relay your location. It is relayed as an azimuth and distance from you to the SARDOT. Code Words. Words used to send vital information quickly and in a secure manner so that the meaning cannot be understood by an intercepting element. Words are either pulled from the ATOSPINS, passed down from higher, or generated by the element in planning. Words may have a theme for ease of remembering such as Types of liqueur, animals or sports. 14-6. HIDE SITE. Should be an isolated, covered and concealed site selected during evasion. In the hide site you should take inventory of your situation and accomplish tasks such as camouflage, resting, and planning the next movement. It is seldom used or occupied for more than 24 hrs. When selecting a site consider the following: • Distance from natural lines of drift (water, roads and trails, ridges, and key terrain) • Vegetation–thick? • Concealed from all directions? • Away from populated or built up areas • Escape route • Location where humans do not normally habitat 14-7. HOLE UP AREA. This is an isolated area selected during movement. Use it when your physical condition requires that you stop for food, water, equipment maintenance, and rest. Generally, avoid occupying such a position for more than 72 hrs. When selecting a hole up area, consider– • Abundance of food and water • Isolated • Low population density • Security at all times • Movement in or around hole up area is still kept to a minimum • Decentralize–separate rest, food procurement, food preparation and so on. 14-8. CAMOUFLAGE. While evading, you may need to use field-expedient means to camouflage yourself, your equipment, and your site. Mud, charcoal, berries, vegetation, ash and blood can all be used to camouflage exposed skin and equipment. Natural vegetation can be fixed to clothing and equipment by using vines to secure it or cutting small holes in the rip stop uniform material and feeding vegetation into it. Whenever a site is constructed and camouflaged keep the following memory aid in mind. B L I S S B LENDS IN L OW IN SILHOUETTE I RREGULAR IN SHAPE S MALL IN SIZE S ECLUDED Section II. SURVIVAL With training, equipment, and the will to survive, you can overcome any obstacle you may face. You will survive. Understand the emotional states associated with survival. "Knowing thyself" is extremely important in a survival situation. It bears directly on how well you cope with serious stresses, anxiety, pain, injury, illness; cold, heat, thirst, hunger, fatigue, sleep deprivation, boredom, loneliness and isolation.