>>1104641>army SERE had no waterboardingI went through Army SERE, got waterboarded. Or at least what everyone thought was waterboarding (tied to a slightly inverted bench, tee shirt stretched over face, water poured over tee shirt--feels like you're drowning/gonna drown but can still breathe as all the water that gets through pools at the top of your mouth and runs out the corners before it can intrude into the airway).
I went through in May. Pretty pleasant weather. Did it at Bragg, 3rd Group's compound/Pineland.
>>1104645Did it in 2005, so yeah. B is the short/easy course for those either not in significant risk of capture or who aren't gonna know anything important. Such as enlisted air crew (pilots do SERE C, which is the full "regular" course, and SOF get their own specially tailored courses from what I've heard). I never got struck, they didn't leave me out innawoods for long periods of time, other than the "E&E" segment which was only 24 hours total we actually went home of an evening (barracks for me), we were allowed to keep weather-appropriate clothing, etc. It was a teaching course mainly, very little "trial by fire" shit. 3 weeks, all but 4 days of which were classroom environment.
I did get to see "over the fence" if you will into parts of the -C course. Glad I didn't have to do it but no doubt I could have.
>if/when hypothermiaThey have a very well trained and large medic staff on-site as well as a full-blown clinic. If there's a legit medical emergency it will be treated as such, and the person can either resume training after it's dealt with or gets med recycled. It's not uncommon for people to break fingers/toes during the course, even the ezmode course, because they're nervous and fuck up. SUPPOSEDLY around the time I went through it wasn't unheard of for the cadre to break fingers during the interrogation portion for the -C and -SOF courses but I never saw it and never met anybody that happened to.
