Air Force plans SERE training for airmen

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Staff Sgt. Brian Lee, of the 100th Logistics Readiness Squadron at RAF Mildenhall, England, pulls security on top of a M915 tractor trailer during a mission in Iraq.


Air Force plans SERE training for airmen
By Sean Kimmons and Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Wednesday, February 20, 2008

RAF MILDENHALL, England — Staff Sgt. Brian Lee knows all about going outside the wire in hostile terrain and the potential dangers that come with it.

The 100th Logistics Readiness Squadron airman recently returned from his third tour in Iraq, where he spent six months racking up 11,700 miles in convoy missions running supplies from Kuwait into the war-torn country.

On a deployment in 2005, he took part in a two-day Survival, Escape, Resistance and Evasion course at Balad Air Base, Iraq. He credits the training for making him more confident on his daunting missions.

“You may be put in a situation where you will have to use this training,” he said. “It was very real because every day we went outside the wire.”

The Air Force plans to usher in similar training early this summer for deploying airmen whose job fields, like Lee’s, put them in harm’s way.


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