[grobdriver]

Forget boot camp.
Try SERE school.

[PeterFinn]

"Forget boot camp.
Try SERE school."

No kidding. The really serious SERE experiences often do get into torture to different extents.

A pal of mine who did it years back (early 90's) snuck off base during the exercise (you could say 'AWOL')and checked in at a nice hotel and kicked it for a week while the rest of his team got 'captured'. Then he dirtied himself up, snuck back on base, and ended up with a commendation in his jacket for evading one of the best S&C teams in the world. He should have been cashiered but he cooked up some cock and bull story that mostly got a wink and a nod.

[airborne]

Try SERE school.

Been there.Done that.

Very tough!

[Jacquerie]

Ah yes, SERE school. As practiced 30 years ago it was a week of no food, physical labor, little sleep, freezing temps without warm clothing. That was the easy part.

The hard part was resisting tough interrogations which upon occasion resulted in the water board. In skilled hands an operator could keep an interrogatee in a continual drowning condition until said interrogatee indicated a willingness to talk. Everyone eventually talked.

[ma bell]

try "Wartime SERE school" at Camp McKall...:))