Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape

The SERE training (survival, evasion, resistance- and escape- training, German for " survival, evasion, resistance and escape training " ) is preparing to avoid capture, captivity, on interrogation situations in the role of victim and escape under realistic conditions in the armed forces of the United States.

A course with similar content is performed as part of the Combat Survival Course for German and international special forces at the Special Operations Training Center in Pfullendorf and for aircrews of the Bundeswehr at the Airborne and Air Transport School in Old Town.

Course Content

The course content consists essentially of three parts.

Survival and Evasion

"Survival and avoid" includes survival training for each climatic zone. These include first aid, camouflage, land navigation, special forms of communication and the building of auxiliary tools.

Resistance and Escape

"Resistance and Escape " includes the behavior in captivity and interrogation. The training is based on the experience of previous prisoner of war - the content is secret, but it is assured that only the survival and not torture techniques are practiced. So is to be applied in order to wear down the prisoners psychedelic music.

Water Survival

The "danger situation water" last practiced in a two -day section to deal with the equipment for the ditching can.

Code of Conduct

During training, the Code of Conduct of the U.S. Army is practiced as a fixed maxim, to have him in the hostile environment as a spiritual guide provides:

Translation

Connection to waterboarding

Part of the training is to prepare their own soldiers to the prisoner. This torture- like methods are applied, among others, so that the soldier can resist later in case of emergency the hostile interrogation longer. The very same methods have been applied since 11 September 2001 by the United States as a method of interrogation against detainees by the CIA and terrorists. They are classified as torture. On October 9, 2008, these techniques have been banned as a method of interrogation by the U.S. Department of Defense.