SERE school (Survival, Escape, Resistance, Evasion)

[Uncle Fester]

We had to make our own Q reservations, and they usually run out of room fast. Though that might have changed now that the VP squadrons have started moving out. Make your reservations now.

Incidentally, they will give you a room in the BEQ if you ask. The BOQ rooms are definitely nicer, but you really won't care, especially when you get back from the field. Better than staying in that POS fleabag out in town they'll give you otherwise.

 

[picklesuit]

We had to make our own Q reservations, and they usually run out of room fast. Though that might have changed now that the VP squadrons have started moving out. Make your reservations now.

Incidentally, they will give you a room in the BEQ if you ask. The BOQ rooms are definitely nicer, but you really won't care, especially when you get back from the field. Better than staying in that POS fleabag out in town they'll give you otherwise.

BEQ is alright, just don't take a room on the 7th floor, the water never really got warm...sucked after a week in the field.

 

[puck_11]

I went through SERE 6 months ago. Everyone signs an NDA now. They even sent an enlisted sailor home on the second day of class because there was something wrong with his security clearance. Pretty much everything taught there is secret, for the protection of future POWs.

 

[puck_11]

Can anyone find his e-mail? I'd like to respectfully discuss the many errors in his article.

 

[A4sForever]

I dont know about when A4s went through ...

Let's just say Doug Hegdahl was a new instructor @ SERE ...

 

[phrogpilot73]

Let's just say Doug Hegdahl was a new instructor @ SERE ...

We now know where you went through... Warner Springs I'm assuming. He was an instructor when I went through, although I've heard he has since retired (don't know if this is true - I went through in '01).

The best part was encountering him "in role" and not knowing who he was until debrief time. I think we were all riveted after the fact, since 99.9% of us had heard his story previously.

 

[GroundPounder]

Let's just say Doug Hegdahl was a new instructor @ SERE ...

I had the good fortune to have a teacher in high school who knew Captain Charlie Plumb USN, and was able to hear him speak on several occasions. Capt. Plumb was a POW for 6 years during the Viet - Nam war. He talked about Mr. Hegdahl, and how they would have a contest periodically to see who ejected at the highest altitude and speed, and who at the lowest altitude and speed. Guess who always won the latter.

Each time that I saw Captain Plumb give his presentation, I walked away convinced that whatever seemed to be a big deal at the time, and so difficult to deal with was in reality nothing to worry about.

 

[Slammer2]

Doug Hegdahl

http://www.pownetwork.org/bios/h/h135.htm

 

[nittany03]

We now know where you went through... Warner Springs I'm assuming. He was an instructor when I went through, although I've heard he has since retired (don't know if this is true - I went through in '01).

I went through in '06 and he was already retired then, although the instructors told us about him and showed pictures of him from when he was still on staff.

 

[RCL813]

Yes, Mr. Hegdahl retired, in '04 if I remember correctly. Everyone always loved finding out who he was after he had done his role playing. I always found it amazing that after all those years he could still list all the names he had memorized, but it makes sence that something like that would stick.

 

[FrankTheTank]

I remember him.. Made a joke about how he was one of the most easily captured POWs or something to that effect.. That was in 96..

 

[ACowboyinTexas]

I went through SERE 6 months ago. Everyone signs an NDA now. They even sent an enlisted sailor home on the second day of class because there was something wrong with his security clearance. Pretty much everything taught there is secret, for the protection of future POWs. [edited for OPSEC]

What part of the NDA aren't you understanding?

 

[wink]

Well A-4s established the earliest sighting of Mr Hegdahl at FASO west, so it isn't news that he was one of our instructors in '79. But we never saw him in the field. He came to brief us before the field exercise and then announced he was going on vacation.

 

[A4sForever]

There's not too much around from the ol' days, but this is pretty much how I remember Hegdahl -- some things just don't change :

 

[ZekeBathory]

Can anyone find his e-mail? I'd like to respectfully discuss the many errors in his article.

When you do, point out at least one factual error I noticed. He said Michael Durant was in captivity for "several weeks." Michael Durant was held there for eleven days.