Before going to Nam on Swift Boats, I went through SERE at Warner Springs in the desert east of San Diego. The pre-prison part of the program was a couple days of class sessions listening to debriefing tapes from POWs liberated after the Korean war. In fact, the poor performance of US captives during Korea was the reason for developing a formal SERE program. There was not one successful escape from a Korean POW camp.
The SERE program was very tough...physcologically and physically, and I came away with bruises and lost 5-pounds...and was not overweight. Good training, and apparently the Brits do not have such a program.
They should be embarrassed.
Before going to Nam on Swift Boats, I went through SERE at Warner Springs in the desert east of San Diego. I heard of that program. It was tough.
The Air Force had another program even tougher than Fairchild. It was reserved for U-2 pilots, RC-135 crews, and SR-71 pilots. I think it was 2 weeks in the "camp" and just a nightmare.