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SERE Water Survival Training
LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. -- Master Sgt. Andrew Stones, 1st Fighter Wing Advanced Program Office, helps 2nd Lt. Georganne Schultz, 1st Fighter Wing Public Affairs, to an HH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter stationed out of Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., during a simulated water rescue Sept. 18. The simulated rescue is part of water survival training conducted by 1st Operations Support Squadron Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape specialists. The training teaches students how to survive if they egress over water. Students learn how to endure life in a 20-man raft, a seven-man raft and a one-man raft, as well as how to best utilize a survival kit. The course covers proper signaling, desalinating water, finding sustenance and how to properly release from a parachute drag. Pilots are required to complete water survival training every three years. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Senior Airman Christopher L. Ingersoll)

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