If you are in a survival situation – regardless of the environment, paracord is a critical component to your survival that you will use over and over in dozens of ways.

This video outlines 101 uses, but there are many more.

The key to paracord is to make sure your stock is military rated and can handle up to 550 pounds; you can get lesser graded paracord, but given the good stuff is so cheap, why would you?

I once used paracord to hold closed a backseat car door in college. How do you use paracord?

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