Survival training for select Air Force career fields ramped up in the post-9/11 world, and the Air Force’s new push to extend such training to all airmen means an even greater workload. A new CSAF’s Scope entry from Gen. Michael Moseley focuses on this “emerging requirement,” saying “look for developments” in survival, evasion, resistance, and escape training. Col. Jeffrey White, head of the 336th Training Group at Fairchild AFB, Wash., home to SERE training central, told The Spokesman Review, “We are a growth business in today’s world.”
In a dramatic flare-up in the hostilities between the U.S. and Iran, American forces struck and destroyed five Iranian oil tankers Sept. 8, U.S. Central Command said. Iran retaliated by lobbing ballistic missiles toward a major U.S. base in Jordan, according to Iranian state media.
