Originally Posted by
AZFlyer
Thanks LivingInMEM and USMCFLYR,
Real reason for my asking all of these questions is that I'm meeting with a recruiter soon to discuss getting on as a boomer in the guard. As long as I hear what I'm hoping to hear regarding financial assistance for education, I'll sign the dotted line. I just wanted to hear a little about the SERE experience.
I've never killed/skinned an animal but that sounds about 100x better to me than eating any sort of insect. Hate em. Oh well!
I grew up on the beach in Florida...swam and got knocked around in the ocean a good many times.
Bugs are fine when you get hungry enough, less effort involved to catch and prepare. I subsisted off of prickly pears...nobody else would touch them because of the thorns. I just dealt with them and lost half as much weight as anybody else.