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Air Force introduces new, foundational Ready Airman Training program
October 4, 2022 — The Air Force announced plans to transition foundational training for all Airmen as of Oct. 1, ensuring they have the necessary skillsets to survive and operate during contingencies both at home station and deployed, including remote and contested environments. ... MORE

Wearable tech for survival specialists now at JBSA-Camp Bullis
October 22, 2019 — An Air Force Research Laboratory team recently delivered version 2.0 of the Survival Health Awareness Responders Kit, or SHARK, to U.S. Air Force instructors at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis, a 28,000-acre site in Texas used to train Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape specialists... MORE

Air Force Capt. Logan Hawke, a pilot assigned to the 16th Airlift Squadron; Master Sgt. William Davis and Staff Sgt. Randall Moss, loadmasters assigned to the 16th Airlift Squadron, communicate with rescue forces with a radio during a survival, evasion, resistance, and escape exercise in North, South Carolina, Aug. 21. SERE specialists assigned to the 437th Operations Support Squadron conducted this exercise in order to identify potential areas of improvement in both SERE training and equipment provided to aircrew in case of a potential isolating event.

Technology changes special warfare, combat support training, recruiting at Air Education and Training Command
July 22, 2019 — Airmen from the 330th Special Operations Recruiting Squadron, Special Warfare Training Wing and Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape are working together to recruit, train and create better Airmen for special warfare and combat support specialties with the help of big data... MORE

Tech. Sgt. Cornelius Bostic (left), 330th Special Warfare Recruiting Squadron recruiter, briefs Claire Stewart (right), University of Houston Air Force ROTC cadet, on equipment worn by special operations members during the fifth annual Pathways to Blue on Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, April 5. Pathways to Blue is a diversity outreach event hosted by Second Air Force with the support of the 81st Training Wing and the 403rd Wing.

SERE specialists showcase training for recruiters
June 17, 2019 — Special operations recruiters from the 330th Recruiting Squadron were welcomed by survival, evasion, resistance and escape cadre from Det. 3, 66th Training Squadron, to learn more about SERE’s Evasion and Conduct After Capture, or ECAC, course at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland June 3... MORE

An Air Force recruiter with the 330th Recruiting Squadron practices climbing a wall following instruction from survival, evasion, resistance and escape cadre members from 66th Training Squadron, Det. 3, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland June 3. Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape cadre are responsible for both the four-day Evasion and Conduct After Capture Course and the 15-day SERE Specialist Training Orientation Course at JBSA-Lackland. ECAC was the first stop for recruiters from the 330th RCS who travelled from across the United States to attend this biannual squadron training intended to immerse recruiters into SERE training in order for them to be better able to recruit Air Force SERE candidates.

JBSA-Lackland SERE cadre opens doors to recruiters
April 12, 2019 — The 66th Training Squadron’s Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape cadre at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland hosted recruiters from the 330th Special Operations Recruiting Squadron March 28. The recruiters were given the immersion tour to witness what SERE candidates at their training facility experience to provide them a perspective for identify prospective Airmen for the SERE career field... MORE

Instructors from the 66th Training Squadron’s Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape cadre at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland showcase their knowledge to recruiters from the 330th Recruiting Squadron during an immersion tour March 28. The recruiters travelled from locations across the United States to get a better understanding of the career field and experience the training a candidate must complete to become a SERE specialist.

SERE candidates face trial by fire at JBSA-Camp Bullis
July 20, 2018 — Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape, or SERE, candidates must overcome roughly a year’s worth of demanding training before calling themselves SERE specialists. Their trails start with the SERE Specialist Training and Orientation Course, or SST-OC... MORE

Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape training starts at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland
June 28, 2018 — Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, famously known as “The Gateway to the Air Force,” is also the gateway to the SERE career field through the SERE Specialist Training Orientation Course, a 15-day course held on JBSA-Lackland’s Medina Training Annex... MORE

U.S. Air Force Airman Basic Cole Kramn, a Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape Specialist Training Orientation Course candidate, conducts a pull-up during a mock physical fitness assessment at the SERE specialist schoolhouse at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland March 22. Kramn, a Spokane, Washington, native, is one of about 400 candidates to come through the orientation course annually.