I quietly told him we would march through. Good plan but it was compromised when they took my sleeping bags out with them! We sang Christmas Carols on the way back on the bus while enjoying some cake, our ordeal over. It's all in there. Unfortunately, the rabbit wasn’t completely dead. Physically the camp was divided into two unequal rectangular sections, roughly 60-40 in proportion,  separated by a tall (10’?) Perhaps the key lesson was to have an escape mentality. Voters decided: Joe Biden will be the next President of the United States! For most of us, anyway. Key elements are the need to maintain cohesion by keeping faith with fellow POW’s, and keep, U.S. prisoners of war in North Vietnam were subjected to extreme torture and malnutrition during their captivity. Yahoo ist Teil von Verizon Media. It was a cold November and I was the first to visit the "People's Pond" by the infamous "bearded one", a former A-Team master sergeant from Vietnam who had his camp overrun by NVA. So you had to go through the gate to get there. The Korean experience was that once the chain of command was broken, POW unit cohesion collapsed. “Everyone” included the Camp Commandant, interrogators,  guards, all saluting the US flag while still in their alien Communist uniforms. As an ensign, I was far enough down the chain of command so it would be a while until they worked over more senior officers in the interrogation hut. Time passes slowly, punctuated by various calls to move from one section of the camp, usually for some sort of harassment. SERE is one scary, hungry, cold, brutal, and necessary bitch. We slept in prepared parateppees that were surprisingly comfortable. It isn’t a torture school at all. Funny thing is, I never gave them the information of our "mission" in the scenario. My name was called early in the afternoon. I would be pretty much the last sleep I would get. Dies geschieht in Ihren Datenschutzeinstellungen. So to you DIS types - screw you, revoke my clearance, I don't care, I live in Europe and am now a member of a socialist party - go do something usefull like catching Bin Laden or something. Neverending propaganda, announcements, and orders streamed from the loudspeakers. (Editor’s note: This story deals with a specific SERE curriculum that no longer exists.) We had heard about students who successfully escaped, but because they hid out in the woods for some time, they did not get a course completion certificate , not having spent enough time in the POW camp honing their resistance skills. We were free! The principal tool used to prepare US Navy aviators for this ordeal was SERE School:  Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape: SERE School was located at NAS Bruswick, ME and at a remote site in the Maine woods. Myth #2 SERE is a “Torture” School designed to break you: Wrong again. I'm a SERE grad, and although the program, especially the Resistance Training Laboratory (RTL, or mock POW camp) is classified, I think that I can comment on what's been going on in the news about the program and correct a lot of misperceptions on the objective of torture. So, I haven't revealed anything classified, just anecdotal and philosphical in regards to the purpose of torture post-WWII. He claimed he was going to use this to “self-terminate” rather than face long term brutal imprisonment. So we just stood there in an impasse: we refusing to crawl, and the guard unwilling to open the gate. Might be different if you had a touch of claustrophobia. Kept us warm trying, though. I haven't written a lot of diaries, mostly because people here have much more insight, expertise, and perception than I. And we marched through. Next day we loaded up buses for the several hour trip to the training area. SERE stands for survival, evasion, resistance and escape, and you guessed it -- it teaches DOD special forces how to survive in the wild and in isolation. See, I learned that physical pain is NOTHING (but I confess to not have a branding iron applied to my genitals but that attitude sure adds spice to the sex life). Check in was routine except as junior officer I had to do some grunt paperwork for the entire class. As it happened, escaping was generally not in the picture. The south section was for the guards:  interrogation building, “kitchen”, and buildings for processing prisoners in and out.

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