The three-week SERE course at Camp Mackall is one of the phases of the Special Forces Qualification Course (Q-Course). Students receive two weeks of training to learn how to live off the land ...

A total of 82 soldiers taking part in survival, evasion, resistance, and escape training along with eight instructors at Camp Mackall, North Carolina, have tested positive for the novel ...

The entire SERE course lasts roughly three weeks. All 110 individuals were quarantined after the outbreak and the next class won’t start again until July 13, Burton added.

FORT BRAGG, N.C. – In response to an outbreak of COVID-19 in its Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) course, the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School (SWCS ...

The SERE course is required for jobs, specialties, and assignments that have a significant or high risk of capture and exploitation such as combat aircrews, special operations forces, ...

While Brown had to work a 14-day quarantine period into the SERE course, Maj. Gen. Craig Wills, commander of the 19th Air Force at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph in Texas, also challenged him to ...

Bauscher said that when going through the SERE course, Airmen are trained on many important survival tactics such as local area survival, emergency parachute training, communication device ...

SERE field training, Dyess AFB, Abilene, Texas, March 24, 2025. Courtesy of USAF. This was nothing but a training exercise with soldiers playing roles and introductory-level tactics.

Todd Foster a Training Area Manager with the Air Force Civilian Service and retired SERE instructor stands in one of the School’s training camps on Tuesday, March 9, 2021, outside Chewelah, Wash.