“USAF Evasion Exercise” by Nutnfancy04:33

Behind enemy lines, trying to stay free, stay alive, and get rescued. At least that is the scenario on this E&E (Escape and Evasion) Exercise performed in the rugged hills of the western US with my military unit. As a participant taking the exercise seriously, it was a hard job to film and narrate…did the best I could. But you will get a feeling of the work involved as my evasion partner and I take the high (very high!) route to avoid machine gun wielding bad guys. It worked and, as in real life, they weren’t that motivated to take on the steep hill climb and rugged terrain. Using cover as best as possible, quiet talking, and fast movement, we make our way to the “partisan” checkpoints and press on. However we are hemmed in at the road and come very close to discovery. The Multicam TRUs I wore helped a lot (and yes we have the option of using whatever we want, just like in the jet in our own personal survival kits that supplement the vests). We meet up with the rest of our crew (four total) and successfully accelerate up hill again away from threat. We are on track to again be number 1 to the next checkpoint when a exercise member is injured (ankle). The exercise is called quits after a few hours and we all hump it back in. This was make up exercise for members of our unit; the full-on evasion exercise and scenario had played out earlier in the summer. Good times, hard hiking, good practice in use of cover and stealthy travel. Oh yeah, and don’t wear black…it stands out! ///////////////// Any critics should note: This is a training requirement for USAF crew members and is conducted within the realm of unit work hours, part time Guardsman availability, and in ever-changing terrain (last time we did it in the jungles of Hawaii). Our life support folks did outstanding work with limited resources and provided valuable training. Armchair Elitists (AEs) who say it wasn’t tough enough, realistic enough, long enough, hard enough, or it should have been at night are, as usual, detached from realities of a real military unit and how things can be done. So please reign in your ego and refrain from grandstanding here telling us how awesome your survival/evasion training/experience is and how bad this training sucks. AEs are not welcomed here as usual. There’s always better, there’s always worse. This is nothing more than a realistic insight to some useful USAF training. In real life many Level Secret techniques would be implemented in the process (not shown). //////////////// Music: danosongs.com