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Well if you were unlucky enough to have the fun schools in the military.... some of you know the ones,, where they can beat the snot out of you and can brake only small bones. Someone should remember them?
You go into a auto mode and stay alive.
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Ahh, yes.. I remember it like yesterday. First was DWEST (Deep Water Environmental Survival Training) also known as "intentional drowning".
After a week of floating/drowning in San Diego bay. then it's off to SERE school. (Survival, Evaision, Resistance and Escape Training). That's when the fun begins, you starve for 3 days and end up getting captured.
After you're catured, you get tortured, interrogated and get the shit beaten out of you. This process is repeated each and every hour for 2 to 3 days.
To address the trekkies delima (in real world terms) Everyone breaks, at what time is an individual matter. You get tortured, you resist, you lie, you suffer, then you give a little info, you shut up. After a period of repeating this, you mix truth with bullshit and you've given as much truth and disinformation as you can. When they find out about the parts of the information that is bullshit, they torture you somemore.
In SERE shcool, the evoloution does not end until EVERYONE has broken. From the most junior enlisted to the most senior officer, EVERYONE breaks or the evoloution keeps going until they do.
The final outcome of the school is: If you ever are captured, you will know where your physical, emotional and psychological breaking points are. By knowing these you can formulate a plan to resist, dis-inform and survive for the maximum amount of time.
My SERE Certificate is dated 4 April, 1980.