SERE Specialists Working to Expand Their Ranks, Improve Recruitment
12/31/2018
​—Brian Everstine
​JBSA-LACKLAND, Texas—One of the Air Force’s smallest career fields is also one of its most misunderstood—and undermanned—so a handful of instructors here are taking it upon themselves to spread the word.
The Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) specialist career starts with initial training in a small building here at JBSA-Lackland. The small cadre of instructors, many of whom didn’t fully grasp the job when they joined, are doing their own outreach to get more people interested in the job. Their goal is to find more capable trainees, or “good clay†as they say, to form into the next generation of instructors who can then go out and teach combat pilots—some of the Air Force’s most important assets—how to survive.
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