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 horizon for 65 consecutive days. Arctic survival training is not for the faint of heart. However, for the survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialists, it is a rite of passage.