SERE an acronym for Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape was created at the end of the Korean War.

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"If we're tasked to execute this type of mission, doesn't matter what service, male, female, they're our brothers and sisters in arms, " SERE specialist "Jesse" said.

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The sere, crumbly atmosphere of a dig, as I envisioned it, seemed a welcome relief from the maelstrom I now perceived to be teeming within the human body.

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Which led naturally to them talking about living out in the weather, which gave Crisp a chance to introduce a bit of his own story about SERE school and survival training.

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It's the same for the other members of the Combat Search And Rescue team, from the pilots and aircrews, to the Combat Rescue Officers and Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape (SERE) specialists.

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All of these interrogation methods have been adapted from the U.S. military's own Survival Evasion Resistance Escape (or SERE) training program, and have been used for years on thousands of American service members with the full knowledge of Congress.

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