In article ,
"Gord Beaman" ) wrote:

WILDERNESS survival in peacetime is different from survival behind
enemy lines in time of war.


Someone ought to tell the military survival school instructors, then,
because
they are teaching people the wrong stuff.

How so? Don't they teach both?

I'm sure that they must...I've had numerous military 'survival
school' courses, Arctic, Winter-bush, Summer, Summer-bush,
Sea-survival. None of them even mentioned the Enemy (other than
panic is your enemy)


In the USN all aircrew have to go through SERE. I'm sure the USAF
probably has something similar. At least when I was in, the mandatory
survival training (beyond extensive water survival training) was about
week in the Eglin AFB wilderness (no adversaries), a few days in the
desert (north of Calexico), and about a week in the semi-forested Warner
Springs (Calif) area training in survival in combat situations (the last
few days with "enemies."

There were also jungle survival (in the PI) and cold weather training
(in Washington), but those weren't mandatory. What was mandatory is that
all aircrews go through SERE; train to survive while evading as well as
spend time as a "prisoner."



--Mike