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Survive, Evade, Resist, Escape
http://townhall.com/columnists/KevinMcCullough/2008/12/21/survive,_evade,_resist,_escape ^ | December 21, 2008 | Kevin McCullough

Posted on 12/22/2008 2:59:16 AM PST by Cindy

Don't let it be misunderstood. Those who serve in our nation's military espouse values that confuse the left, confound their purpose, and leave them unable to understand, much less resonate with our service men and women. This week I saw why.

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TOPICS: Philosophy
KEYWORDS: character; charactercounts; military; protectandserve; sere; usmilitary; values
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1 posted on 12/22/2008 2:59:17 AM PST by Cindy
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To: Cindy

one of my relatives went through SERE school years ago. To his day he doesn’t like camping.


3 posted on 12/22/2008 3:03:00 AM PST by kms61
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I went through SERE school at Camp Mackall NC in 2000. It's like getting a kick in the balls to prepare for a kick in the balls. Nice article, however there is no breaking of bones major, or otherwise. They have very narrow lanes in which they must operate and treat the students in the RTL. SERE and what goes on there is also classified to the squid should have been mum about it.
4 posted on 12/22/2008 3:13:04 AM PST by FROST18E
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To: Cindy

I’ll bet the art of SERE peaked at the USAF Academy, late Viet Nam time frame, around 1969-71, as a necessary preparation for the barbarity of the prisons in the north. But, I’ve not seen what they do now. Visiting active duty NCOs who administered SERE for newly trained pilots in the USAF were pretty amazed at what the USAFA Cadet SERE Cadre “got away with”. Of course, with females on campus since the 80s, it is probably all ancient history.


5 posted on 12/22/2008 3:14:42 AM PST by Check6
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To: F15Eagle

Thought this was an Obama birth certificate or an Obama - Blagovich Illinois Senate Seat thread.

Wouldn’t that be the Deny, evade, obsuscate and make
counter accusations thread?


6 posted on 12/22/2008 3:20:18 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Cindy
My dad had to go through it when he was an officer in the US Sea Bee's. He had heard about it an in the class training they told him not to be a hero. He did not know enough to be important anyway so they thought he would be killed when they found out who he was.

So when they took him down to Pendleton on an unusually rainy night, he went out for about a day in the boonies and hide and evaded. When about 20 hours had gone by he was captured.
The Marines dressed up as “VC” put them into a barbwire enclosure and after a minor “interrogation” he gave up all they asked for... they let him go into a dry tent! He said an “VC” officer laughed and said he should given up sooner and not been so wet and cold for a day. They let him sleep and relax for the next day or so until the weekend was over.

So goes SERE training as and officer in a construction battalion. He said managing building construction was obviously not near as important as a pilot.

7 posted on 12/22/2008 3:22:33 AM PST by JSteff (It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and may have doomed us for a generation or more.)
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To: Cindy

What a great article! Bookmarked. Thanks, Cindy!


8 posted on 12/22/2008 3:25:19 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: tet68

Obfuscate.

I went through a simple NCO course at Pendleton before going to Nam, one of the treatments was to be bound and gagged, placed into a wooden box with the lid nailed shut and then hoisted about, followed by the instructors throwing dirt on the lid then complete silence...

and I wonder why I can’t sleep at night...


9 posted on 12/22/2008 3:33:08 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Cindy

Great article!


10 posted on 12/22/2008 3:42:07 AM PST by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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To: tet68
My son went through SERE about 4 years ago. He attended in Maine in February.
If you evade caputure by the trainers you still have to go through the torture phase. The only benefit you get from evading capture is they give you a ham sandwich as a reward.
We didn't hear all the stories, but various leak out over time.
11 posted on 12/22/2008 4:18:15 AM PST by Recon Dad (Marsoc Dad)
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To: FROST18E

“SERE and what goes on there is also classified to the squid should have been mum about it.”

Very true. Thanks for bringing that up.


12 posted on 12/22/2008 4:21:50 AM PST by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger ....)
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To: Cindy

Very revealing article, thanks.

The brutality of current wars over and against wars in the past (before Korea/Viet Nam) is astounding. Man’s inhumanity to man by inhuman humans.

With Women in the Field . . . I for one do not believe they need to be there . . . it’s just too horrible to envision the torture al Qaeda or Taliban would do to a captured woman.


13 posted on 12/22/2008 4:28:30 AM PST by HighlyOpinionated (Cultural conditions, not gun laws, are the most important factors in a nation's crime rate.)
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To: Cindy
Been there...done that...and yes, I have the tshirt....
14 posted on 12/22/2008 4:37:13 AM PST by rightwingextremist1776
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To: Check6

I went through SERE at USAFA in ‘73. The POW’s had returned and they were advisors during our training. It was brutal but I always feel like a wimp knowing that it was only a few weeks for us and the POWs went through it for years. To this date they are my heroes. Went in at 185lbs came out at 160lbs.


15 posted on 12/22/2008 4:37:26 AM PST by affan76
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To: kms61

I’m a proud graduate of SERE. Can’t say much about it, but I can say that I don’t care to repeat the course.


16 posted on 12/22/2008 4:37:52 AM PST by SampleMan (Community Organizer: What liberals do when they run out of college, before they run out of Marxism.)
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To: HighlyOpinionated
So Brad Thor & Vince Flynn are getting it right :)

Truly, I am in awe of the caliber of men we have who will do this and for all the right reasons.

God bless them.

17 posted on 12/22/2008 4:40:08 AM PST by Guenevere
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To: Cindy

I went through SERE in 1967. All Navy Aircrew had to complete SERE before they went to Vietnam.

I don’t know how SERE operates today but back then they would lay hands on you with hostile intentions.

I was a young man back then and I remember thinking that every male in the USA should be forced to spend two weeks at SERE.

Merry Christmas everyone and have a Happy and Healthy New Year.


18 posted on 12/22/2008 4:53:45 AM PST by airdalechief
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To: HighlyOpinionated

I’ve never understood this sentiment. Is the torture of a man somehow morally preferable to the torture of a woman? Is it easier for you to “envision” the torture of a man, and if so, why?


19 posted on 12/22/2008 4:55:16 AM PST by Caesar Soze
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To: Cindy

I went through the 9th Division SERE course in 1977. The MI company was the cadre. One of the guest instructors had been a prisoner of the Japanese. I was the senior POW - not fun but very instructive.


20 posted on 12/22/2008 4:57:16 AM PST by MadJack ("Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." (Afghan proverb))
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