Really?

I mean, I'd understand if it was Glasgow, but Edinburgh?

As a former submariner who spent time in Holy Loch, I'm OK with this.

Spad31: Oh, for fark's sake. It's an online course you take in about 15 minutes. Level 100 SERE CBT. You don't have to go to Fairchild. farking twatwaffles. Subby is an idiot.

I'm assuming that doesn't mean what I think it does.

How about Liege, Belgium?

The Bestest: Spad31: Oh, for fark's sake. It's an online course you take in about 15 minutes. Level 100 SERE CBT. You don't have to go to Fairchild. farking twatwaffles. Subby is an idiot.

I'm assuming that doesn't mean what I think it does.

Computer Based Training?

As stated before, there are a couple levels of that course. Even if you have to go to the full one, it's not a bad thing. While hard, the course is highly sought after, sometimes offered as a reenlistment incentive.

The Stealth Hippopotamus: You need that kind of training just to survive the restaurants. Have you had Scottish food?!? And the service is pure torture!

aaand thread finished in one.

also, your blog sucks.

URAPNIS: Computer Based Training?

Ohhhhhh. OK, yeah. We'll go with that, then.

Obligatory.

//I'd see them, huddled in stations being loud.....

FTFA

"Although the sere training in question is not the hellish 2 week ordeal, but a one day course."

You work for a military college. You have sensitive information. You are being asked for one day of your time.

Stop whining, go do your day long seminar, and get on with it, you whiny imbecile.

The Bestest: URAPNIS: Computer Based Training?

Ohhhhhh. OK, yeah. We'll go with that, then.

Or cock and ball torture.
Your choice.

A man was driving through Scotland on a very narrow and winding track. As he slowed to take a turn, a massive Scotsman leaped out of the bushes and forced him to stop his car. As the driver got out, the Scot drew a claymore and said "I want ya ta jerk off" and waved the claymore menacingly at him. The confused driver complied and jerked off. When he was done, the Scotsman said "again", and then when he was done a second time, the Scotsman said "again". Five times later, the driver said he could not do it anymore. The Scotsman gave a whistle and a pretty 16 year old girl came out of the bushes and the Scot said,"alright, can ya give me daughter a ride to Inverness, then?".

It's a *SURVIVAL*, evasion, resistance, and escape course. Could be useful if the plane goes down over the Atlantic, and you manage to survive the ditching.

dittybopper: It's a *SURVIVAL*, evasion, resistance, and escape course. Could be useful if the plane goes down over the Atlantic, and you manage to survive the ditching.

Assuming, of course, that it covers stuff like sea survival.

Jake Havechek: A man was driving through Scotland on a very narrow and winding track. As he slowed to take a turn, a massive Scotsman leaped out of the bushes and forced him to stop his car. As the driver got out, the Scot drew a claymore and said "I want ya ta jerk off" and waved the claymore menacingly at him. The confused driver complied and jerked off. When he was done, the Scotsman said "again", and then when he was done a second time, the Scotsman said "again". Five times later, the driver said he could not do it anymore. The Scotsman gave a whistle and a pretty 16 year old girl came out of the bushes and the Scot said,"alright, can ya give me daughter a ride to Inverness, then?".

That was rude and crude and mean.

I laughed my ass off!

Spad31: Oh, for fark's sake. It's an online course you take in about 15 minutes. Level 100 SERE CBT. You don't have to go to Fairchild. farking twatwaffles. Subby is an idiot.

THIS. I've read Dr. Metz' stuff and it's good, but he's being a whiny biatch about this. It literally is a 15 minute online course. This is a case of a cranky academic that's being too lazy to click through the damn presentation. Also, the material at the war college's is very academic and theoretical. They do not deal with secrets or classified information.

/current Navy War College student
//my professors are not whiney biatches.

I've done both courses, the second serves adequately as a refresher for the first, IMHO. I suspect it's a blanket requirement in the Foreign Clearance Guide, so I'm not sure what the fuss is about. Getting through APACS and ECC is way more of a headache anyways.

Also, they clearly do not teach grammar or I would know how to properly place a farking apostrophe.

Newsflash: Muslims are now a significant population of the UK. This is news to exactly no one.

zorlack7: FTFA

"Although the sere training in question is not the hellish 2 week ordeal, but a one day course."

You work for a military college. You have sensitive information. You are being asked for one day of your time.

Stop whining, go do your day long seminar, and get on with it, you whiny imbecile.

So much THIS. I'm going to give Subby the benefit of the doubt in that it IS at least mildly interesting that SERE training is offered and required for travel in general...BUT...

The academic in question and the authors seem like the kind of spoiled whiny twatwaffles that simultaneously criticise big business while expecting at least a variety of 5 different syrups for their morning Starbucks.

Wow, butthurt over having to take a computer course that says to do things like make sure you lock your car and not leave a classified computer on the bed where the hotel maid can see it. What a farking waste of money. They should have to go through the full 2 week course - Scotland if full of gingers, which as we all know, have no souls.

hubiestubert: What do they require if they head to Florida?

A Yankee accent and the inability to operate a motor vehicle.

What could happen in some parts of Edinburgh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8OSJNDvUCA

Spad31: Oh, for fark's sake. It's an online course you take in about 15 minutes. Level 100 SERE CBT. You don't have to go to Fairchild. farking twatwaffles. Subby is an idiot.

Level 100 SERE Cock & Ball Torture?

Rusty Shackleford: [www.victoriansatwar.net image 530x800]

Do they give them a goolie chit? Not sure how much use this would be on a Saturday night in Craigmillar.

Mind you, some of the notes would apply just as well: "The older Arabs cannot read, write or tell the time. They measure distance by by the number of days' journey. "Near" may mean ten minutes or ten hours."

I've been given directions like that in Scotland. "Ye cannae miss it, son!"

According to that arabs don't eat breakfast. Possible explanation for why they're so irritable?

Even the Level 200 course isn't the big deal that this is making it out to be, although to be fair, that one would be a little over the top for travel to a relatively safe country.

The Level 100 course is things that any academic should review every morning before pulling out of their driveway, just to remind them that life in the real world isn't daisies and unicorn farts.

The original Edinburgh SERE training:

watson.t.hamster: Rusty Shackleford: [www.victoriansatwar.net image 530x800]

Do they give them a goolie chit? Not sure how much use this would be on a Saturday night in Craigmillar.

Mind you, some of the notes would apply just as well: "The older Arabs cannot read, write or tell the time. They measure distance by by the number of days' journey. "Near" may mean ten minutes or ten hours."

I've been given directions like that in Scotland. "Ye cannae miss it, son!"

According to that arabs don't eat breakfast. Possible explanation for why they're so irritable?

No bacon or sausage, either. Sand, lots of sand. No sex until marriage, and you can't jack off.

Does the course include a good butt-farking from Vigo Mortensen? If so, sign me up!

Grapple: Perhaps they should also take Severe High Intensity Training while they are at it.

The best part of Special High Intensity Training is that lower enlisted don't have to worry about noncoms and officers getting all of it, as it 'rolls downhill' especially well.

Jake Havechek: watson.t.hamster: Rusty Shackleford: [www.victoriansatwar.net image 530x800]

Do they give them a goolie chit? Not sure how much use this would be on a Saturday night in Craigmillar.

Mind you, some of the notes would apply just as well: "The older Arabs cannot read, write or tell the time. They measure distance by by the number of days' journey. "Near" may mean ten minutes or ten hours."

I've been given directions like that in Scotland. "Ye cannae miss it, son!"

According to that arabs don't eat breakfast. Possible explanation for why they're so irritable?

No bacon or sausage, either. Sand, lots of sand. No sex until marriage, and you can't jack off.

Explains why suicide bombing is so popular. Why wouldn't you want to die?

/also no booze.

LOL. I have to take yearly SERE training too to travel to most foreign countries. It's SERE-B training, and it comes packaged on a CD in an application whose instructions indicate that the program will crash a couple of times and this is completely normal. Just keep relaunching the program until it eventually works. It's like some kind of cruel torture just getting the thing to run.

I guess subby has never been to Leith.

you guys are severely underestimating SERE CBT. you have to gut a rabbit using only a KVM switch. and the instructors can moderate your posts up to 5 times a day.

If you see this, turn around and walk away and a brisk yet inconspicuous pace.

Take me to the English and you will be rewarded, mu-fu-ka.

ModernLuddite: Obligatory.

//I'd see them, huddled in stations being loud.....

Came for this.

Oznog: [images.pictureshunt.com image 330x410]

If you see this, turn around and walk away and a brisk yet inconspicuous pace.

But I'm not Jewish...

I think it's because the definition of exotic is "places that don't speak english"!

Spad31: Oh, for fark's sake. It's an online course you take in about 15 minutes.

THIS. How long does it take to remind you to not fall for the ol' honeypot trick?

SERE? Meh... it's not so bad, provided you can hold your breath after being slugged in the stomach.



Face-to-face time with the instructors is nice, too.

/_{are you hurt, or are you injured?}

revrendjim: Have you ever seen what a red-headed Scottish gal can do to a man's soul?

No, I haven't Rev. Jim. I'm willing to volunteer to find out though.

This just in! The military has courses as pre-requisites for doing things!