In past wars, captured American pilots were subjected to extreme hardship and used for propaganda purposes. Today, the US Air Force is preparing its fighter pilots for similar conditions.

Pilot Capt. Logan Hawke and loadmasters Master Sgt. William Davis and Staff Sgt. Randall Moss, all assigned to the 16th Airlift Squadron, communicate with rescue forces with a radio during a survival, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Air Force's elite survival school just accomplished an almost unheard-of feat: graduating a full class with almost no dropouts ...

The Corps is streamlining how it prepares deploying Marines in survival skills and evading capture by potential hostile forces in order to reduce a training burden. Deploying military and Defense ...

FORT RUCKER, Ala. (November 21, 2014) -- Faced with an ever-evolving and dynamic operational environment, the Army must produce small unit leaders capable of making independent tactical decisions.

The Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) program provides military personnel with training in evading capture, survival skills, and the military code of conduct. SERE trainees in a life ...

FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. – The 336th Training Group is streamlining Air Force Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape training with several possible permanent changes to modernize training, ...

In combat, all troops face a risk of being captured, and the rules regarding their treatment while in captivity are often ignored. The US military has a courses of varying complexity and intensity to ...

Todd Foster a Training Area Manager with the Air Force Civilian Service and retired SERE instructor stands in one of the School's training camps on Tuesday, March 9, 2021, outside Chewelah, Wash.

FORT NOVOSEL, Ala.--Retired Command Sgt. Maj. Shawn L Jones, U.S. Army Survive, Evasion, Resistance, Escape (SERE) training manager, recently received the Order of St. Michael-Airborne award, guardian ...

The Air Force's elite survival school just accomplished an almost unheard-of feat: graduating a full class with almost no dropouts. Twenty-six of 28 students graduated the Survival, Evasion, ...