Principles of survival

Question 1

What is the purpose of survival doctrine?

Answer 1

Survival, sets forth the doctrine pertaining to service members in isolated situation’s. This applies to service members, military civilians, and DOD contractors, when surviving individually or in a group.

Question 2

What is personnel recovery?

Answer 2

Personnel recovery is the military efforts taken to prepare for and execute the recovery as well as the reintegration of isolated personnel. Personnel recovery aims to return, isolated personnel to duty, as well as to sustain morale, increase, operational performance, collect information, and develop intelligence.

Question 3

Who must understand survival evasion, resistance, and escape,

Answer 3

All DOD personnel, civilians and supporting contractors, must understand how survival evasion resistance, and escape relates to personal recovery.

Question 4

What proficiencies are under survival for Sere?

Answer 4

Protection, sustenance, survival medicine, and navigation.

Question 5

What is the purpose for the SERE acronym?

Answer 5

Identify the actions and they’re related proficiencies. Survival begins when individuals execute, their isolated guidance plan or escape and evasion plan.

Question 6

What does the evasion proficiencies entail?

Answer 6

Capture avoidance, detection avoidance, recognition avoidance, communication, and recovery

Question 7

What proficiencies are under escape?

Answer 7

Restraint defeat, cell defeat, building defeat, and installation defeat.

Question 8

What proficiencies are under resistance?

Answer 8

Organization, exploitation resistance, captivity communication, Health, and honor

Question 9

What is survival medicine?

Answer 9

Survival medicine is characterized by remote and improvised care of isolated personnel with routine or exotic, physical, or psychological illnesses, or trauma, limited resources, and labor, and delayed evacuation to definitive care.

Question 10

What are the four fundamentals of survival medicine?

Answer 10

Prevention, recognition, medication, and treatment.

Question 11

What is the military definition of planning?

Answer 11

Planning is the art and science of understanding a situation, envisioning a desired future, and laying out effective ways of bringing the future about.

Question 12

What is sustenance?

Answer 12

Sustenance includes preparing, preparing and storing adequate food and water to enable the isolated person, normal body functions, and to provide strength, energy, and endurance to overcome the stress of survival.

Question 13

What is the military definition of preparation?

Answer 13

Preparation our activities by units and service members to improve their ability to execute operations.

Question 14

What is protection in relation to survival?

Answer 14

Protection is the wear and care for protective, clothing and equipment, the ability to build, appropriate shelter, and fire, and the application of basic security measures.

Question 15

When are protection needs being assessed?

Answer 15

Protection needs are assessed during planning and preparation, activities, and integrated into organization, training and equipping considerations by the commander and staff, unit, Recovery, Force, and the individual.

Question 16

How long are army forces typically equipped, and prepared to survive for?

Answer 16

Army forces are typically equipped and prepared to survive up to 96 hours of isolation, subject to Recovery Force capabilities, threats, and environmental concessions.

Question 17

How are navigation requirements met for isolated personnel?

Answer 17

Navigation requirements for isolated personnel are met through planning, and preparation efforts that focus on a combination of GPS, map and compass, and field expedient techniques in a specific operational environment for the purpose of surviving, avoiding capture, and facilitating recovery.

Question 18

Why are navigation limitations and opportunities important to plan and prepare for?

Answer 18

Limitations and opportunities, relating to terrain and illumination must be analyzed during preparation and planning to allow personnel the ability to organize train and equipped themselves to conduct precise movements to desired locations such as recovery areas, recovery sites, and Riley points to enable link up with recovery forces.