The second phase is a five-day field training exercise in which the students practice their survival and evasion skills by procuring food and water, constructing small evasion fires and shelters and evading tracker dogs and aggressor forces for long distances. You will be given a SERE level B course, which, as someone else said, will be a power point presentation and some handouts for you to study. SERE stands for survival, evasion, resistance and escape, and you guessed it -- it teaches DOD special forces how to survive in the wild and in isolation. Times change…. The Army Aviation Center at Fort Rucker, Ala., has their own another Level-C facility for aviation pilots in the Army. I can't tell you too much about their requirements but one thing I know is they are more than likely give those schools to Airmen that it may benefit. It is tough, it will push you in ways you probably haven’t been pushed before and it isn’t fun. I dont know if that is a volunteer course. To comment on this article please login or create an account. We want guys who can be the best of the best,” Kibler said. It was tough, eye opening and a helluva self motivational course. Since the Army revamped the training and made SERE a part of the SFQC about a decade ago, every prospective SF soldier goes thru it before their patrolling phase (Phase III). And it makes more sense, in the old days, candidates would go through a survival portion of the training and then after graduation, selected members would get tasked to attend SERE. We understand ads might not be why you’re here, but our ad revenue is one of the ways we keep the lights on and our veteran writing staff paid. Thank you for your gracious comments. that if you can have your recruiter put a slot in for you. “You can’t build that fire? Level-B is conducted at the unit level, through the use of training-support packets containing a series of standardized lesson plans and videos. The SERE Level-C training facility at Camp Mackall is one of only five facilities within the DoD that is authorized to conduct Level-C training. They have no concept about themselves until they’re cold, wet, tired, hungry and miserable,” Kibler said. It provides a minimum level of understanding of the Code of Conduct. Not sure what the Army has. Not everyone that goes to SERE school is on the same level when it comes to high risk of capture, so not everyone is going to appreciate the training as much. SERE training is hard but not too hard and certainly not impossible. Depending on your MOS, it would be an automatic session at SERE. You failed it a second time?