28 June 2009
Survival ‘SERE’d into Scouts
Posted by admin under: merit badge .
ScoutingNews.org has a story about the Navy helping to teach Boy Scouts some survial techniques and it sounds loads better than the dumping on a side of a hill we did with out troop (slight exaggeration).
Boy Scouts from Coronado, Calif., received survival training from some of the Navy’s best survival training instructors at the Warner Springs Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) training facility May 30-31.
The Boy Scouts of Troop 806 got a glimpse into the wilderness survival training military members learn while at the survival course.
“The boys are here working on a wilderness survival merit badge,” said Scout Master Matt Pittner. “They are supposed to learn how to survive in cold or hot weather situations, how to get food and water and everything you need to know in case you would get lost in the woods.”
Three Navy SERE instructors volunteered to teach trapping and hunting techniques, navigation and fire building.
“[The instructors] taught us different styles of shelters at this training, and I think that the instructors were more experienced,” said scout Daniel Chapa, 14.
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“The training they received here is years ahead of what they would have received at a Boy Scout summer camp,” explained Pittner. “This is truly something that they are going to remember forever.”
Now go dump them on a hill. 
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