User 1019
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Not trying to be an attention *****, here, but I'm going to need some prayers over the next three weeks.
This evening, I report for the most intense, physically and mentally challenging and demanding training I have ever received -- or ever will receive, for that matter.
It's the Army's ground and water survival school. S.E.R.E., or Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape, is designed for those at high risk of capture by the enemy. Special operators, Rangers and aviators (my category) attend the three-week school that has three basic phases: a classroom phase where you learn basically what you can and can't eat, how to build structures, cross lakes with gear and other fieldcraft; a full-on evasion (evading cadre) in which students are dropped off with nothing but a survival kit and have to make their way to a designated rescue point; and a practical interrogation/pow camp exercise that lasts several days.
The second and third phases are obviously the hard ones. Long days with nothing to eat except what you can find, "uncomfortable living conditions," interrogation, all that kind of crap. Not going to be a fun week, there.
Everyone I've talked to says it's, by far, the hardest and best training they've ever gotten and are both glad to have gone and glad it's over, at the same time.
Mrs. tbf is used to me being away all the time, but with the new baby, it's going to be much tougher on both of us. At least she'll have company while I'm gone, though.
Please remember me and my family over the next 21 days. It won't be an easy time for any of us.
This evening, I report for the most intense, physically and mentally challenging and demanding training I have ever received -- or ever will receive, for that matter.
It's the Army's ground and water survival school. S.E.R.E., or Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape, is designed for those at high risk of capture by the enemy. Special operators, Rangers and aviators (my category) attend the three-week school that has three basic phases: a classroom phase where you learn basically what you can and can't eat, how to build structures, cross lakes with gear and other fieldcraft; a full-on evasion (evading cadre) in which students are dropped off with nothing but a survival kit and have to make their way to a designated rescue point; and a practical interrogation/pow camp exercise that lasts several days.
The second and third phases are obviously the hard ones. Long days with nothing to eat except what you can find, "uncomfortable living conditions," interrogation, all that kind of crap. Not going to be a fun week, there.
Everyone I've talked to says it's, by far, the hardest and best training they've ever gotten and are both glad to have gone and glad it's over, at the same time.
Mrs. tbf is used to me being away all the time, but with the new baby, it's going to be much tougher on both of us. At least she'll have company while I'm gone, though.
Please remember me and my family over the next 21 days. It won't be an easy time for any of us.
