TRAINING: SSFN SERE TRAINING SCHOOL
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TRAINING: SSFN SERE TRAINING SCHOOL
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Over the past couple of years it has
been my great privilege to get to know
a truly inspirational man, an individual
that has lived out the adventures that
most of us only dream about, and
then transformed them into a survival
training programme that is respected
worldwide.
Working with specialist military units
Brane T. Cervek has been teaching
hostile environment survival, escape
and evasion courses for over 23 years.
Not only that but he has also spent some considerable time
and money developing his own “LandCamo ABD” camouflage
patterns which I’ll be covering in a future issue of PMCI. He is a
unique individual whose story I am pleased to be able to share.
PMCI: Brane, in your own words tell me what led you to set
up the SSFN and the SERE programme
I would say thoughts lead all things and thoughts give them
birth and shape. My first childhood dream world came out of
nature itself. Back then as a kid there was constant outdoor play
just as Tarzan did in the jungle. I realized pretty soon that my
own “jungle” is in the discovery of this magical world that we
have been put into to survive. I knew quite from the beginning
there must be much more than just hard pronouncing scientific
names of the world that surrounds us, there must be a whole
knowledge and universe of hidden secrets that can be revealed;
the curiosity of how our forefathers lived and survived instilled
in me an urge to discover these mostly forgotten secrets, not
forgotten by survivalists, but forgotten by the average person
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