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The Son of my best friend in Alaska, APD Sgt. Aaron Whitt's son just graduated from AF SERE

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZX4WKv1gco

Jon is in a couple of shots, he is WHITT on his shirt. These men are amazing!!! I am so proud of him.

Could someone please move this to GD, I posted in the wrong forum, sorry.

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  • Rocky Raab

    In my day, SERE was all about Vietnam, of course. There were several days of classroom stuff, the a week of "escaping" and surviving in the mountains of Washington state. Then we were all "captured" and first enjoyed days of solitary confinement and interrogation (including some reduced but very real "torture") and sleep deprivation. Finally we were placed in a prison camp where we were expected to try some kind of escape.

    In your mind you know it's all simulated, but they make it damn real at times. It is no fun at all. You leave the school half starved, utterly exhausted, and absolutely sure you will do almost anything to avoid being captured.

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  • KenK/84Bravo

    Crisp Hand Salute there Bruce.

    Kudos and Congratulation to the Young Man. A major accomplishment.

    One of my Buddies was a 2/75th Ranger. He got out, went to Med School and went back in as a PJ.


    We met when a couple years after 9/11, he came in to the Outdoor Adventure Equipment Store I helped manage. Asked if I was So and So. I replied Yes. He said "Your BIL says to tell you Hi. I was on his Physical Security team. We were talking over a campfire in Afghanistan a couple weeks ago in the Mountains, and where you work came up."

    When he came home on leave, to attend Medical School, he looked me up. We became fast friends.

    *My BIL was a Major in Military Intelligence, they were all in the Boonies/Backcountry in Ethnic garb, with beards.

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  • Old-Colts

    Congrats to him!

    I went through the Navy's SERE/DWEST in 1971 and as Rocky suggested, it certainly isn't a trip to Disneyland!!!!!!

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  • ridgleyart

    Congratulations to him!

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  • bpost

    He was the only one in the group to evade capture for the entire number of days he was hiding and scooting. The other guys were definately ruffed up by the "enemy" after they got caught. It is no picnic for these young men to become an instructor in SERE. They pay their dues and we can all sleep better knowing they are on the right team.

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