SERE. This is a military term which stands for Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape. It is not only a term, but it is an actual course that all elite military teams must endure, ie, the Navy SEALs, the Army Special Forces, and Marine Force Recon. The course covers the four basic skills that are described in the name, SERE. First, Survival. This entails bushcraft, primitive fire starting methods, shelter construction, and how to thrive and survive in the elements of rain, snow, wind, and blistering heat. Second is Evasion. This section covers the different tactics that are implented to escape from behind enemy lines, cover your tracks, and avoid capture and/or death. Thirdly, Resistance. Resistance entails, in case of being discovered, the techniques of eliminating your hunters whilst being on the run, by implementing guerrilla tactics of warfare. This section also teaches the student how to resist interrogation techniques that are brutal and painful in their nature, if in fact you are captured. Finally, Escape. Escape covers how to break out of an enemy camp, if you have been captured. This entire course of training makes up SERE school. Now, we will take each of these subjects and cover them extensively in a four part lesson. This is part 1.
Survival. Survival is the first part of SERE school. Survival is an interesting topic, for it calls upon many different skills and mindsets that the student must perfect before he is ready to live in the wild. To be able to survive effectively, we should first take note on what "survival" means. Survival is simply the ability to keep your ass alive, pure and simple. Whatever you have to do to live, THAT is survival. If that means cutting back on a utility bill or a cable bill so that you can spend that money on food for yourself and your family, that is survival. If it means killing a group of individuals that are coming for your food and/or your family, then that is survival. Survival is basically me first, you next. It is the basic premise of the animal kingdom, and it used to be the code that human beings lived by, but no longer. Humans have become soft, sensitive, gentle, and merciful to the "rights" of animals. What a complete load of crap that is. Now since humans have become this way, this makes survival an extremely difficult skill to acquire. If animals have "rights", then you can't kill them for your food. If you can't kill them for food, then you can't eat meat. You see where this train of thought is going. So from birth, Americans are taught that even TREES have rights. I lived in an area once where the people of that city literally had a funeral for a tree that had to be cut down. Un-frickin-believable. But that, that is what prevents people from getting in touch with their inerrant survival instinct. Therefore, to survive, you need to eliminate all of the inhibitors that stop you from surviving. Most of these inhibitors are emotional and psychological. For instance, if I gave you a particular kind of meat to eat to survive, and DID NOT tell you what that meat was, you would very likely find that meat to taste good. But then if I told you that it was dog meat, you may lose your appetite. See how it's done? Now, once you remove all emotional and psychological stumbling blocks, then you can begin to train on how to survive. How to construct a shelter using primitive methods, tarps, tents, sticks, rope, etc. How to hunt, how to skin, how to clean game, how to cook game, how to start fires using various methods, primitive and contemporary. How to purify water, stay dry in the rain, stay warm in the cold, and how to stay cool in the heat. All this will be covered, in length, at some point. Another important aspect of survival is this, you must possess a particular set of skills. There is a simple way of explaining this. It is called a survival pyramid, and it is composed of three things. The base of your pyramid, the first thing you must possess, is the WILL TO LIVE. Without this, you have nothing. You can be the most elite military soldier in the world, who has been taught anything and everything about survival methods, but if you do not have the will to live, you might as well lay down and wait for the Reaper. In fact, people who have no skills in survival, but yet have the will to live, these people ADAPT to their situation and in some cases, they make it. Because they have the willpower to survive. So the will to live composes the base of your pyramid. The second item, the middle, of your pyramid, is KNOWLEDGE. The old adage still rings true, knowledge is power. Knowledge is knowing and possessing the skills of survival. These include fire starting methods, shelter construction methods, obtaining water, etc etc. With the will to live and knowledge, you are already "out in front" in the terms of outliving the rest of the population. Now the third and final item in our pyramid, the capstone if you will, is KIT. Kit contains some basic survival items such as fire starting items, like matches, butane lighters, flint and magnesium, and tinder. It may also contain some water purification tablets, a mirror, whistle, compass, folding saw, knife, fish hooks, fishing line, sinkers, an emergency blanket, 550 paracord, a tarp, etc etc. With kit, knowledge, and the will to live, you have an excellent chance of surviving anything and everything that nature can throw at you. So then, Survival is the first and foremost skill to acquire and master in the SERE system. Without the ability to survive, the other three components of the SERE system become obsolete. So get your gear together, psyche yourself out, and study up on the tactics and methods of survival, primitive and contemporary. I will be posting some other articles on this blog that will be more specific as far as the survival knowledge goes, and one of my affiliate sites will be posting an excellent survival kit in the near future, and I will provide the link to that as soon as it comes up. This concludes our segment on survival, and one more thing to remember, there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.
Survival. Survival is the first part of SERE school. Survival is an interesting topic, for it calls upon many different skills and mindsets that the student must perfect before he is ready to live in the wild. To be able to survive effectively, we should first take note on what "survival" means. Survival is simply the ability to keep your ass alive, pure and simple. Whatever you have to do to live, THAT is survival. If that means cutting back on a utility bill or a cable bill so that you can spend that money on food for yourself and your family, that is survival. If it means killing a group of individuals that are coming for your food and/or your family, then that is survival. Survival is basically me first, you next. It is the basic premise of the animal kingdom, and it used to be the code that human beings lived by, but no longer. Humans have become soft, sensitive, gentle, and merciful to the "rights" of animals. What a complete load of crap that is. Now since humans have become this way, this makes survival an extremely difficult skill to acquire. If animals have "rights", then you can't kill them for your food. If you can't kill them for food, then you can't eat meat. You see where this train of thought is going. So from birth, Americans are taught that even TREES have rights. I lived in an area once where the people of that city literally had a funeral for a tree that had to be cut down. Un-frickin-believable. But that, that is what prevents people from getting in touch with their inerrant survival instinct. Therefore, to survive, you need to eliminate all of the inhibitors that stop you from surviving. Most of these inhibitors are emotional and psychological. For instance, if I gave you a particular kind of meat to eat to survive, and DID NOT tell you what that meat was, you would very likely find that meat to taste good. But then if I told you that it was dog meat, you may lose your appetite. See how it's done? Now, once you remove all emotional and psychological stumbling blocks, then you can begin to train on how to survive. How to construct a shelter using primitive methods, tarps, tents, sticks, rope, etc. How to hunt, how to skin, how to clean game, how to cook game, how to start fires using various methods, primitive and contemporary. How to purify water, stay dry in the rain, stay warm in the cold, and how to stay cool in the heat. All this will be covered, in length, at some point. Another important aspect of survival is this, you must possess a particular set of skills. There is a simple way of explaining this. It is called a survival pyramid, and it is composed of three things. The base of your pyramid, the first thing you must possess, is the WILL TO LIVE. Without this, you have nothing. You can be the most elite military soldier in the world, who has been taught anything and everything about survival methods, but if you do not have the will to live, you might as well lay down and wait for the Reaper. In fact, people who have no skills in survival, but yet have the will to live, these people ADAPT to their situation and in some cases, they make it. Because they have the willpower to survive. So the will to live composes the base of your pyramid. The second item, the middle, of your pyramid, is KNOWLEDGE. The old adage still rings true, knowledge is power. Knowledge is knowing and possessing the skills of survival. These include fire starting methods, shelter construction methods, obtaining water, etc etc. With the will to live and knowledge, you are already "out in front" in the terms of outliving the rest of the population. Now the third and final item in our pyramid, the capstone if you will, is KIT. Kit contains some basic survival items such as fire starting items, like matches, butane lighters, flint and magnesium, and tinder. It may also contain some water purification tablets, a mirror, whistle, compass, folding saw, knife, fish hooks, fishing line, sinkers, an emergency blanket, 550 paracord, a tarp, etc etc. With kit, knowledge, and the will to live, you have an excellent chance of surviving anything and everything that nature can throw at you. So then, Survival is the first and foremost skill to acquire and master in the SERE system. Without the ability to survive, the other three components of the SERE system become obsolete. So get your gear together, psyche yourself out, and study up on the tactics and methods of survival, primitive and contemporary. I will be posting some other articles on this blog that will be more specific as far as the survival knowledge goes, and one of my affiliate sites will be posting an excellent survival kit in the near future, and I will provide the link to that as soon as it comes up. This concludes our segment on survival, and one more thing to remember, there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.
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