SERE Training
03-26-2010, 07:17 AM
#31
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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.
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.
03-26-2010, 09:06 AM
#32
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
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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03-26-2010, 10:00 AM
#33
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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.
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.
03-26-2010, 08:36 PM
#35
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Originally Posted by Ftrooppilot
Amazingly - I flew the T-37 and T-38 in UPT.
03-26-2010, 09:16 PM
#36
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Threat Awareness
Originally Posted by Jughead
I dunno - rabbits aren't shooting at us or setting up roadside bombs. Rabbits have no agenda.
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03-26-2010, 09:34 PM
#37
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Originally Posted by HoursHore
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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