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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.