What is SERE like?
Almost all of SERE school is classified. Don’t expect to find many answers here, but here are a few things that may help. Plan for life to suck, really bad, for a little less than a month. Keep an open mind and a positive attitude, and you will take more away from the course–and you will learn more–than you ever thought possible. As many who are getting ready to attend the school do, you’re probably wanting to find out all you can before arriving. Strangely enough, doing that can actually hurt you. The course changes with each rotation, so reacting to what you THINK is happening because you heard about it from another student may cause you to act incorrectly. There are also certain moments in the course where you will learn much more if you go in acting on your own instincts and behaviors, rather than following someone else’s advice. It gives you the opportunity to see if your techniques and ideas work (or fail miserably) in difficult situations, rather than just trying to “beat” the
