New from WA

**hammer24** · 11-05-2009, 11:21 PM

Im a survival instructor looking to learn what i can.

**crashdive123** · 11-05-2009, 11:24 PM

Hello and welcome. What kind of survival do you teach? What kind of experience do you have?

**hammer24** · 11-05-2009, 11:31 PM

i teach aircrew survival, global principals of survival. Im relatively new but i have trained in temperate, desert, coastal, open ocean, and tropical environments for survival.

**Ken** · 11-05-2009, 11:33 PM

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**Sourdough** · 11-05-2009, 11:33 PM

Welcome.........WA is that in America.....?

**hammer24** · 11-06-2009, 01:12 AM

WA is Washington state

**Rick** · 11-06-2009, 06:47 AM

Welcome home, hammer. Don't mind Sourdough. He lives in Alaska and thinks it's a country by itself.

**owl_girl** · 11-06-2009, 10:22 AM

welcome hammer. your job sounds very exciting.

**oldsoldier** · 11-06-2009, 01:53 PM

Hello and welcome to the asylum

**SARKY** · 11-06-2009, 04:41 PM

which branch are you teaching for? How long have you been teaching? What is your pervious experience?

**Winnie** · 11-06-2009, 04:43 PM

Hello and welcome

**Icemancometh** · 11-06-2009, 06:35 PM

Welcome from KY

**hammer24** · 11-07-2009, 02:37 AM

im in the Air Force. havent been teaching very long. my true experience is limited to "surviving" in the environments i listed above. Im no expert but above average.

**Camp10** · 11-07-2009, 07:59 AM

Originally Posted by hammer24

i teach aircrew survival, global principals of survival. Im relatively new but i have trained in temperate, desert, coastal, open ocean, and tropical environments for survival.

So your an expert on all creatures poisonous. I'll stick to the cold Maine winters. Nothing here will bite and kill you...well, other than the women...

**SARKY** · 11-07-2009, 12:07 PM

Camp10, you're talking about BMW right? The kind that are warmth in the winter, shade in the summer and if you get them tatooed, you've got moving pictures all year long!

**SARKY** · 11-07-2009, 12:12 PM

Originally Posted by hammer24

i teach aircrew survival, global principals of survival. Im relatively new but i have trained in temperate, desert, coastal, open ocean, and tropical environments for survival.

So you've been through T.E.S.T., what about C.W.S.T.? Have you been through advanced evasion as well? Should I assume (hate doing that) that you've been through SERE

**woodsman86** · 11-07-2009, 03:24 PM

Welcome to the forum. I am also from WA, sationed at Fort Lewis. Are you teaching at McCord?

**hammer24** · 11-07-2009, 05:48 PM

I have been through SERE. Its also the course i currently teach or will be teaching here in a month. The course the instructors go though (including myself) is basically SERE, but indepth and spread over six months with some other stuff like teaching techniques and rock climbing thrown in. all the survival info is taught to us in each environment so we can experience how it feel to survive in those environments. then we pass that experience on to the students coming through SERE. it give us more credibility when we teach to say we have actually done it.