Author Topic: Skuzzy (Read 1432 times)

Swager · « **Reply #15 on:** April 25, 2004, 04:07:01 PM »

Thanks for telling us Skuzzy.

Give him a salute from the Swager family!

deSelys · « **Reply #16 on:** April 25, 2004, 04:54:24 PM »

to your son, to his mom and to you.

I hope that everything's gonna be fine for him and his mates.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #17 on:** April 25, 2004, 05:53:04 PM »

Thank you all, it is appreciated.

deSelys: Thanks, we hope so too.
Swager: You got it.
Maverick: Once in a while, as a parent, you get lucky. Appreciate the thoughts.
mjolnir: You know how the military is. I hope he is back by then as well.
Arlo: Quite right. All aircrew go through the SERE mini-camp.
Saurdaukar: Thank you sir .
Nilsen: Thank you Nilsen.
culero: Thank you culero.

Dnil · « **Reply #18 on:** April 26, 2004, 01:29:44 AM »

minicamp? mine was 3 weeks long. december of 96.

Naso · « **Reply #19 on:** April 26, 2004, 05:50:43 AM »

I hope for your son a safe return.

ravells · « **Reply #20 on:** April 26, 2004, 05:56:12 AM »

You must be very proud.

As Naso said, I hope for his safe return.

Ravs

Flossy · « **Reply #21 on:** April 26, 2004, 06:47:46 AM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Needless to say, I am proud of him.
He just recently got tapped to be sent to Iraq, which worries us a bit. The only solace we take right now is that he has some of the best training the military can offer.

You have every right to be proud. Best wishes for his safety and eventual return home.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #22 on:** April 26, 2004, 06:48:40 AM »

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Originally posted by Dnil
minicamp? mine was 3 weeks long. december of 96.

The standard SERE course takes 6 weeks.

They have quite a few different sub-courses, depending on who is being trained. Only the trainers have to take all of the them and it takes approximately 2 years to do that.

Grizzly · « **Reply #23 on:** April 26, 2004, 03:16:35 PM »

Absolutely wonderful Skuzzy! A thank you and a to him for his service, and a thank you to his mom and dad for him.

grizzly

airguard · « **Reply #24 on:** April 26, 2004, 03:57:01 PM »

Good luck for your son and the best wishes.

(search and rescue is prolly the hardest service of all but nobody knows much about it!!)

S!

Dnil · « **Reply #25 on:** April 27, 2004, 01:05:25 AM »

i know ejection seat guys take a different course but no one I knew took a 6 week one. Most did it in college. Maybe the ejection seats took a 6 week course.

Why it would be 6 weeks I have no clue, 3 weeks was pretty pointless. The classroom stuff was topnotch, the field stuff was a waste of time, for me anyway.

See the course is different depending on which time of year you go. My buddies that went through in the summer actually had food to eat, could fish and could trap. No snowshows and decent weather. 1 even said it was a lot of fun, kinda like camping. I went through during a huge snow/ice storm and well it sucked bigtime. Big bellybutton broken crappy snowshoes, 6 ft of snow in the good areas and no food anywhere, cept for the 1 frozen squirrel we trapped. I learned absolutely nothing out in the field.

Another thing AWACS doesnt have parachutes, pretty much if that plane is going down, kiss your bellybutton good bye. Really no point in POW training.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #26 on:** April 27, 2004, 06:43:48 AM »

Dnil, like I said before, it takes an instructor about 2 years to complete all the different classes at SERE school. The longest one is the extended water survival course. The field course lasts 2 weeks and the classroom lasts a week.
SERE has class outlines for many different branches of the military. And not just the U.S. military.

It all depends on what your job classification is as to what class outline you take.