USAF SERE Program Patch

USAF SERE Program / ¨Return with Honor¨ Patch

SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) is a U.S. military training program developed at the end of the Korean War to provide service members with training in the Code of Conduct, survival skills, evading capture, and dealing with being taken prisoner. It was created by the Air Force but was expanded to the Army and the Navy after the Vietnam War. The school is intended to train aircrews, special forces, and other service members who operate in dangerous areas and are thus more likely to be captured.

The flagship program is conducted by the Army’s John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School (USAJFKSWCS—which Col. Wendell Fertig helped to found), at Fort Bragg, North Carolina under the supervision of then LTC James "Nick" Rowe, a Special Forces (Green Beret) officer who suffered under North Vietnamese captors for 62 months before escaping and evading to freedom (read Five Years to Freedom). The primary Air Force SERE training location is Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington.

SERE at USAJFKSWCS is a 19-day intense course of instruction that is also Phase VI (last phase) of the Special Forces Qualification Course (the "Q course") in order for Army Special Forces candidates to receive the coveted Special Forces Tab. The course is taught 25 miles southwest of Ft. Bragg, NC at Camp Mackall.

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