Did you go to this course as a result of being selected for an attache billet? Did your wife go through with you?
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Did you go to this course as a result of being selected for an attache billet? Did your wife go through with you?
No I'm with mil group side of things. They offered to send my wife (we would have had to pay for ammo), but I opted for unaccompanied orders.
My class even got to go hiking, read a map and learn about which way is north, build a campfire, hunt, fish, get lots of fresh air...
I attended Advanced Evasion in 2005. Great time in the mountains around Rangely during the summer. Same area used for SERE, but more of it. More emphasis placed on Evasion instead of the SERE "labratory". One week of classroom stuff. 7 days in the field, teams of 2 start off at night with a map, compass, PRC-149, an Admin Radio, and whatever else you feel like bringing. Generally, you'd like to carry similar things to what you have in your vest, but we all had alice packs full of food and supplies. The more stuff you carry, the more weight you carry. Teams have checkpoints to make and check in via radio. Maybe there's a helo waiting for you, AF CSAR supported us that summer. Inevitably the helo crashes and you evade to the next point. Active dog teams are chasing you. Maybe next checkpoint has a SOF team, you never know. Last team standing (not getting caught) gets to change into civvies and evade through the town of Rangely via OGA, beats spending the last night in the woods. Our team wasn't caught, one of those "more lucky than good" things. Attended with three pilots, only one other helo crew was there (HS I think). 3-4 Force Recon teams showed, and a couple of scout sniper types. By far the best training I've attended.
How much of what you learned at advanced evasion can you take back to your squadron; ie, is it one of the SERE type deals where you don't want to gouge your buddies up before they go, or is it something you can go back and put out to the guys not lucky enough to attend?
I don't think there are any disclosure issues. I left out many of the details just in case someone does go, but the gist of it is permissible among professional circles. There is a lot of stuff that goes on with Comms and SPINS that wouldn't be appropriate for this forum, but were excellent teaching points among the aircrew back home.
How exactly does one go about getting into these? I'm actually attending some special training at NASNI right now that the squadron voluntold me for (no complaints, TAD in San Diego is fine by me), but how do I find opportunities to volunteer for these things?
I'm not sure how it works for officers, but a lot of this stuff you can look up in CNTRX (I know I'm spelling that wrong). The problem is getting the CIN. However, I'm guessing that something like the particular class you're currently in is probably a little harder to find, if for no other reason than no one is allowed to talk about Fightclub...which personally I think is a little ridiculous.