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SERE specialists conquer the Arctic during training Airman 1st Class Jose Miguel T. Tamondong © Maj. Tyler Williams Staff Sgt. Samuel Ley, a 66th Training Squadron, Detachment 1 survival, evasion, resistance and escape, or SERE, specialist, demonstrates how to use an MK-124 smoke and illumination signal on the Chukchi Sea Jan. 13. The MK-124 is a smoke and illumination flare used to signal search and rescue personnel in the event of an emergency or extraction situation. U.S. ...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Staff Sgt. Samuel Ley, a 66th Training Squadron, Detachment 1 survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialist, demonstrates how to use an MK-124 smoke and illumination signal on the Chukchi Sea, Jan. 13. (U.S. Air Force file photo) ‘Cool School’ teaches airmen to conquer Arctic climes EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska — It is a place where wind gusts as high as 50 mph, wind chills drop to minus-60 degrees Fahrenheit and where the sun does not rise above the h...

Wind gusts as high as 50 mph, wind chills dropping to minus 60 degrees Fahrenheit, and a place where the sun does not rise above the horizon for 65 consecutive days. Arctic survival training is not for the faint of heart however for the survival, evasion,,

Wind gusts as high as 50 mph, wind chills dropping to minus 60 degrees Fahrenheit, and a place where the sun does not rise above the horizon for 65 consecutive days. Arctic survival training is not for the faint of heart however for the survival, evasion,, News, features and commentaries about Air Force Reserve people, equipment and missions