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- To give you a rough estimate...

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My name is Tech Sergeant Mike Rutland.

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I am the NCOIC of SERE Operations,

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here in the 31st Fighter Wing.

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SERE is Survival, Evasion,
Resistance, and Escape.

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We provide state-of-the-art
preparation, planning,

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execution, and adaptation
of personnel recovery

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across all spectrums of the environment.

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Whether it's host nation peacetime, or

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preparing our forces for combat

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in a contingency type of operation.

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One of our visions here
as a SERE specialist,

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here in the 31st Fighter Wing,

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is to provide the 31st
Fighter Wing commander

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100% combat mission-ready forces.

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So the class we went to last week

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was specifically combat survival training.

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And it's one of the currencies
our pilots here have to track

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in order to be considered
combat mission-ready.

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So we start off in the
classroom in the morning,

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it's crawl walk run type of a set up,

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so we do academics in the morning,

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and we take 'em up into
a field environment

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the remainder of the day,

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and they practice and
are able to experiment

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with the equipment they'll have,

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should they find themselves
in an isolating event.

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