Gary Oliver is a US Army veteran, owner of Training and Survival, and founder of the YouTube channel KYPrepper 5, where he discusses a variety of preparedness topics. He has been doing emergency preparedness since 2007 and has over 20 years of mining safety experience. He is a certified Firefighter/EMT as well as a First Aid/CPR/AED, Wilderness First Aid, Stop the Bleed and AVERT Instructor. He is also a Certified Instructor through Campcraft Outdoors in Modern Survival, Winter Survival, Urban Survival, and Bushcraft Hygiene and First Aid.

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