Combat Survival Training School is a survive, evade, resist, escape ( SERE) school for the

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. Its base is at RAAF Base Townsville. Its motto is "Adapt and Return". All

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aircrew are required to complete a 15-day SERE course delivered by the Combat Survival Training School. As well as teaching

survival skills Survival skills are techniques that a person may use in order to sustain life in any type of natural environment or built environment. These techniques are meant to provide basic necessities for human life which include water, food, and she ...

, including how to evade enemy personnel, students are instructed in techniques to resist interrogation and escape

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. In 2014, it was reported that the course was "one of the hardest things that any air force flyer will do".

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