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U.S. Air Force Survival School students train on body position for post ejection procedure on Tuesday Aug 14, 2007 in Spokane, Wash. The training teaches the students what to do after their flat circular canopy (parachute) has opened. JED CONKLIN The Spokesman-Review
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U.S. Air Force Survival School students learn on Tuesday Aug 14, 2007 how to land with a parachute after ejecting from an aircraft. JED CONKLIN The Spokesman-Review
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A U.S. Air Force Survival School student is taught recovery device training by being evacuated in a practice scenario by using a Forced Tree Penetrator lowered by a UH-1N Huey on Tuesday Aug 14, 2007 at Faichild Air Force Base near Spokane, Wash. The device is used to lift an aircrew member from an area where a helicopter is unable to land. JED CONKLIN The Spokesman-Review
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U.S. Air Force Survival School student, left, 2nd Lt. Jason Woolford, picks his way through the Colville National Forest on Monday Aug. 21, 2007 while navigating from map point to map point. The students spend 17 days in SERE training including six days in the mountains. JED CONKLIN The Spokesman-Review
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The students receive training including shelter construction, food procurement and preparation, day and night land navigation techniques, evasion travel and camouflage techniques, ground-to-air signals, and aircraft vectoring. JED CONKLIN The Spokesman-Review
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2nd Lt Jason Woolford makes his way through the thickets of the Colville National Forest. JED CONKLIN The Spokesman-Review
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U.S. Air Force Survival School students, from left, 2nd Lt. Jason Woolford from Offutt AFB, Air Guard Capt. Larry Belcher from Yeager AFB and Tech Sgt. Paul Rhoades from Westover AFB take a break during a navigation training exercise in Colville National Forest in Northeast Wash., on Monday Aug 20, 2007. The students are part of the basic SERE (survival, evasion, resistance, escape) training given primarily to aircrew members. JED CONKLIN The Spokesman-Review
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Airman First Class Jay Watson, right, struggles to regain his footing after falling off a log. JED CONKLIN The Spokesman-Review
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SERE students give each other a helping hand as they travel up the steep and wet hillsides of the Colville National Forest. JED CONKLIN The Spokesman-Review
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The SERE students are not allowed to use roads during navigation training so they cut their own trail from map point to map point. JED CONKLIN The Spokesman-Review
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After the students have made their poncho shelters they eat an MRE (meal ready to eat) that they must make to last 24 hours. JED CONKLIN The Spokesman-Review
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Airman First Class Jay Watson lies down in his poncho shelter as 2nd Lt. Jason Woolford prepares his MRE. JED CONKLIN The Spokesman-Review
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During the six days the students spend in the mountains they learn to make a poncho shelter. One of the techniques they learn is to use pine boughs as a padding to sleep on. The branches keep the students off the ground and dry. JED CONKLIN The Spokesman-Review
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