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Originally Posted by AZFlyer (Post 784095)

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.

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Originally Posted by rickair7777 (Post 784213)

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.

I liked those little potato chips we made out of some root, though I didn't mind eating them raw either. There wasn't anything growing up in the Maine mountains in December - so I don't even remember what we did then. It was my first time (and last) on snow shoes though! I've never even skied - so I'm glad that I did the 'Summer Rock Package' at the Moutain Warfare Training Center in Bridgeport, CA instead of the 'Winter Package' which included more cold weather survival and cross country skiing and the likes. The one survival course that I thought sounded interesting, but never had the chance, was the Arctic Survival Training held by the Canadians for all of their people that forward deployed in support of NATO way up north! I thought I might get the chance when I applied for the Canadian Exchange - but no such luck (or was it luck??? ;))

USMCFLYR

Most of us go through life without any sort of real privation ever, those of you who may have reservations about eating certain things will quickly lose them in a few days. The mind and body will surprise you with it's innate will to survive that you may not be aware of at all right now.

Knowledge and experience can help, as can the experiences of others who may have learned over a period of years that they can survive what to most of us is an impossible situation.

Three days without any food, cold and high physical activity can change your outlook fairly quickly.

Are they still requiring the Mile swim in flight Gear? sans boots? I am a pretty good swimmer but there was a Marine in our class who swam freestyle the whole thing and crushed it.

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Originally Posted by Ftrooppilot (Post 784115)

Amazingly - I flew the T-37 and T-38 in UPT.

Me too, and I graduated in 08. That actually got me interested in all the places we had pilot training in the T-37 era.....it's very interesting to see all the random UPT bases we once had.

Threat Awareness

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Originally Posted by Jughead (Post 784121)

I dunno - rabbits aren't shooting at us or setting up roadside bombs. Rabbits have no agenda.

Best not take any chances.....

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Originally Posted by HoursHore (Post 784530)

Are they still requiring the Mile swim in flight Gear? sans boots? I am a pretty good swimmer but there was a Marine in our class who swam freestyle the whole thing and crushed it.

What year did you go through :D

USMCFLYR