In combat, all troops face a risk of being captured, and the rules regarding their treatment while in captivity are often ignored. The US military has a courses of varying complexity and intensity to ...

The Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) program provides military personnel with training in evading capture, survival skills, and the military code of conduct. SERE trainees in a life ...

In reaching and justifying its decision to waterboard detainees, the Bush administration relied on the argument that the U.S. military had done the same thing, without lasting harm, to its own troops.

There are psychologists at SERE school, not only there to evaluate the people undergoing the training, but also to evaluate the staff and cadre that are there to make sure that they're not losing ...

Opponents of last week’s release of memos detailing CIA interrogation techniques argue that they will provide enemies of the United States with a training manual to prepare their operatives for ...

Word came yesterday that House Democrats are still seeking more once-classified documents about the Bush Administration’s harsh interrogation program–in this case, the May 2005 memo by a State ...

The release of a newly declassified congressional report on Tuesday suggested that some of the brutal interrogation techniques used during the Bush administration were developed in the Survival, ...

The Iraqi prisoner had valuable intelligence, U.S. special forces believed, and they desperately wanted it. They demanded that expert American military trainers teach them the same types of abusive ...

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. - The 55th Operations Support Squadron’s survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialists, better known as SERE, joined with the Nebraska Army National Guard to conduct ...

Pilot Capt. Logan Hawke and loadmasters Master Sgt. William Davis and Staff Sgt. Randall Moss, all assigned to the 16th Airlift Squadron, communicate with rescue forces with a radio during a survival, ...

Survival, Escape, Resistance, Evasion (SERE) training is a must for Airmen parachuting into enemy territory. We tagged along on a field exercise to find out how it’s done.

The death of an airman going through the Air Force's Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape training last summer in Texas has been ruled an accident, according to a recent investigation from Air ...