Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Nilsen on April 24, 2004, 03:27:34 PM
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I got the impression in one of the other posts that you have a son that is doing his duty somewhere abroad..
can you tell us what he does, or is that kinda "off limits"?
:)
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He could tell you but then he'd have to ban you.
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Well he could also ban him before telling him, negating the entire issue.
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True but there really wouldn't be any fun for the rest of us in that. Oh wait, yes there would be...
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Oh well, IN...(with apolgiies to Hotlund for being childish!)
Ravs
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Skuzzy,
Read your post when you closed the duplicate Tillman thread.
I definately agree with your comments.
BTW in the concept of this thread, tell us about your kid that's serving now.
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Why do you guys have the same avatar (revells and someone else)?
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Well I pinched Diablo's avatar on account of a really brave man who gave his life for a better world.
Ravs
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My son (he is actually my step son, but I am the only father he ever knew) is currently a SERE (Search, Evade, Rescue, and Esacape) instructor in the Air Force. If any of you went through SERE school (the Air Force School trains Navy Seals, Rangers, and others from all over the world), you know how tough it is.
All military pilots go through a subset of SERE, and my son has gotten several letters sent to the base commander praising his professionalism in handling the task.
One letter, which he has framed in his room, was from a mother of a soldier serving in Iraq. It is quite simple. She said, "I received a letter from my son and he asked that I send a "thank you" for the training he got from Airman Dial. He felt he would not be alive today had it not been for the instructor. As the mother of this soldier, I would like to thank him as well."
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.
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Best wishes for his safety and healthy homecoming.
~S~
culero
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I can see why you are proud.
I wish him good luck and a safe return :)
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
All military pilots go through a subset of SERE, and my son has gotten several letters sent to the base commander praising his professionalism in handling the task.
Aircrewmen too. to your son.
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Skuzzy, if your son's back by September sometime, I'll probably get to see him when I go up to Washington for that. I'll keep my eyes peeled. :)
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Thanks Skuzzy,
Sounds like you did a hell of a job raising that youngster.
Prayers are otw for his safe return.
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Thanks for telling us Skuzzy.
Give him a salute from the Swager family!
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to your son, to his mom and to you.
I hope that everything's gonna be fine for him and his mates.
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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.
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minicamp? mine was 3 weeks long. december of 96.
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I hope for your son a safe return.
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You must be very proud.
As Naso said, I hope for his safe return.
Ravs
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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.
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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.
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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
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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!
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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.
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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.