easyand
07-20-2004, 10:06 AM
The SERE Instructor Qualification Course trains NCOs and officers in survival fieldcraft, evasion techniques, resistance to interrogation and escape. The training is geared to what an evading soldier may need to know to be able to return to friendly control and, at the same time, not be detected by the enemy.
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_rabbit.jpg
These are some rabbits that some trainees turned into a meal.
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_worm.jpg
Special Forces captain swallows a worm to the delight of his fellow trainees. Asked what it tasted like, the captain said, "Dirt. And kind of like a worm. Kind of fishy. Kind of fishy. "
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_fish_lures.jpg
Soldiers are taught to use anything to survive, like this trash scavenged in the woods and used to build a lure to catch fish.
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_weapons.jpg
These are examples of weapons that soldiers can make by scavenging and thinking creatively.
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_extract.jpg
Survival School also teaches the students how to be extracted by helicopter should they ever need to be rescued from terrain like a jungle where trees and vegetation are too dense for a helicopter to land
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_capture.jpg
However, the Army places strict limits the physical and mental pressures that guards can exert. But the Army will not publicly disclose what the limits are so it can maximize the anxiety for future students.
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_machinegun_fire.jpg
To simulate a real environment, the "opposition" army that hunts the mock prisoners is armed with blank ammunition
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_macall.jpg
A mock POW camp
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_undress.jpg
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_hooded.jpg
What the instructors hope to teach can be summed up quite simply: They want soldiers to understand that if they're captured, there's a difference between being a prisoner of war and a prisoner at war.
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_search.jpg
The mock prison camp is designed to provide the most realistic conditions possible
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_toilet.jpg
Conditions are spartan in the mock POW camp. These are the 3rd World latrines that trainees use while they are "imprisoned." No toilet paper is provided.
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_grave.jpg
The communist-style prisoner-of-war camp has cages, concrete cells and outside its barbed wire are mock graves.
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_final.jpg
end of the curse!
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_rabbit.jpg
These are some rabbits that some trainees turned into a meal.
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_worm.jpg
Special Forces captain swallows a worm to the delight of his fellow trainees. Asked what it tasted like, the captain said, "Dirt. And kind of like a worm. Kind of fishy. Kind of fishy. "
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_fish_lures.jpg
Soldiers are taught to use anything to survive, like this trash scavenged in the woods and used to build a lure to catch fish.
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_weapons.jpg
These are examples of weapons that soldiers can make by scavenging and thinking creatively.
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_extract.jpg
Survival School also teaches the students how to be extracted by helicopter should they ever need to be rescued from terrain like a jungle where trees and vegetation are too dense for a helicopter to land
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_capture.jpg
However, the Army places strict limits the physical and mental pressures that guards can exert. But the Army will not publicly disclose what the limits are so it can maximize the anxiety for future students.
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_machinegun_fire.jpg
To simulate a real environment, the "opposition" army that hunts the mock prisoners is armed with blank ammunition
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_macall.jpg
A mock POW camp
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_undress.jpg
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_hooded.jpg
What the instructors hope to teach can be summed up quite simply: They want soldiers to understand that if they're captured, there's a difference between being a prisoner of war and a prisoner at war.
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_search.jpg
The mock prison camp is designed to provide the most realistic conditions possible
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_toilet.jpg
Conditions are spartan in the mock POW camp. These are the 3rd World latrines that trainees use while they are "imprisoned." No toilet paper is provided.
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_grave.jpg
The communist-style prisoner-of-war camp has cages, concrete cells and outside its barbed wire are mock graves.
http://www.training.sfahq.com/images_train/sere_final.jpg
end of the curse!