SERE

We train them to do that in what we call SERE training, Survival Escape Resistance and Evasion.

CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2007 2007

When the gimps in SERE torture American boys and girls by pouring water up their noses to get them used to the idea and they then go and do it to somebody else, it does not involve ‘discovering the technological principles of a device, object or system through analysis of its structure, function and operation’.

Comments Everywhere « Antiwar.com Blog 2009

Take a look at what happens in SERE schools one day - not to mention some other less-well-known activities.

Discourse.net: At the Sharp End: The Highest Officials Authorize Torture of a Clerk 2009

Believe the loved-ones of the over 10,000 soldiers in SERE training, where someone they love were waterboarded.

Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition 2010

Consequently, the Air Force developed a program it dubbed SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape) to train pilots in resisting psychological torture.

Alfred W. McCoy: Confronting the CIA's Mind Maze 2009

We already knew the Bush administration borrowed techniques from the military training programme called SERE, for "survival, evasion, resistance and escape", first designed to give American pilots and special forces troops a sample of the torture methods used by Chinese and North Korean communists during the Korean war.

Center for American Progress Ken Gude 2009

A guy who is waterboarded in SERE training, hell, the purpose of the training itself, is to take you more or less safely to your limits, so you know 1) that they exist, and 2) you can reach ‘em, even exceed ‘em, and live.

Matthew Yglesias » Sleep Deprivation 2010

(Folks who imagine that our primary purpose in SERE training is to keep potential prisoners from revealing secrets forget that the best way to keep a secret is not to let it out, which is why very few POWs know much information with any real value.

Matthew Yglesias » Sleep Deprivation 2010

Following the President’s determination, techniques such as waterboarding, nudity, and stress positions, used in SERE training to simulate tactics used by enemies that refuse to follow the Geneva Conventions, were authorized for use in interrogations of detainees in U.S. custody.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy 2010

But those interrogations had always been training sessions at the military's school known as SERE — Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape.

Officials: CIA gave waterboarders $5M legal shield 2010