Specialty Summary: Develops, conducts, and manages Air Force survival, evasion, resistance, and escape (SERE) programs. Develops, conducts, manages, and evaluates SERE Code of Conduct training (CoCT), Code of Conduct Continuation training (CoCCT), and combat search and rescue (CSAR) and personnel recovery (PR) operations. Conducts operational testing on and instructs the use of SERE related equipment. Performs and instructs basic, advanced, and emergency military parachuting. Coordinates SERE activities and conducts observer and controller duties during CSAR/PR exercises.
Duties and Responsibilities: Plans, organizes, directs, and conducts SERE training activities. Designs and develops curriculum, functional structure, and procedures for SERE CoCT and CoCCT courses and programs. Determines training schedules according to course control documents, directives, policies, and instructional principles. Ensures student safety. Conducts classroom, laboratory, and operational training. Uses lecture, demonstration and performance, guided discussion, and time and circumstance instructional methodology. Conducts training under conditions closely approximating actual SERE episodes. Training environments and scenarios include, but are not limited to, global environmental conditions, combat situations, and the full spectrum of captivity environments.
Develops SERE joint tactics, techniques, and procedures (JTTP). Supports operational tasking for theater and Joint Forces Commanders. Functions as in-theater SERE and PR subject matter expert (SME). Manages development and coordination of SERE and CSAR and PR operational support programs. Manages SERE programs including isolated personnel reports, evasion plans of action, blood chits, evasion charts, and PR aids. Augments Joint Personnel Recovery Center (JPRC) and Personnel Recovery Coordination Cell (PRCC) as SERE and PR SME. Assists in developing theater PR CONOPS and recommends changes.
Instructs and performs static line, military free fall, and emergency parachuting techniques. Conducts test parachuting operations including SERE related survival and aircrew flight equipment, personnel parachutes, and aircraft jump platform certification. Demonstrates emergency parachute procedures for SERE CoCT and CoCCT students.
Coordinates SERE activities to support CSAR related exercises. Performs observer and controller duties for high-risk-of-isolation personnel to ensure safety of exercise participants, ensure appropriate learning outcomes for CSAR forces and exercise participants, and document lessons learned from exercise events.
Inspects and evaluates SERE training and CSAR and PR operational support activities. Evaluates SERE CoCT and CoCCT courses and programs. Determines readiness and efficacy of equipment, supplies, and training aids. Ensures standardization and compliance with policies, directives, course control documents, ORM procedures, operational guidance, and instructional methodology.
Specialty Qualifications:
Knowledge. Knowledge is mandatory of: The Code of Conduct; global SERE and CSAR/PR principles and JTTP; procedures for CoCT and MAJCOM CoCCT requirements; procedures for CSAR/PR program management; JPRC and RCC roles and missions; intentional and emergency parachuting procedures; providing for personal protection and sustenance; communication and signaling techniques; methods of vectoring recovery assets; evasion movement; nuclear, chemical, and biological survival skills; physiology and psychology of survival; avoidance of hazardous terrain, rough land travel and emergency evacuation procedures for injured personnel; survival medicine; wilderness advanced first aid certification; land and water navigation and travel; proper conduct when dealing with special operations recovery teams and non conventional assisted recovery mechanisms; caring for and using post-egress, recovery, and life support survival equipment; improvising and manufacturing clothing and equipment needed by an isolated person; courseware development; lecture, demonstration and performance, guided discussion, time and circumstance, and role-play instructional methods and techniques; impact of Geneva Conventions on evaders, POWs and escapees; conduct after capture concepts for war, governmental detention, and hostage environments including, but not limited to, resistance to exploitation, organization and communication, maintenance of psychological and physical health, and escape.
Education. Completion of high school with eleventh-grade reading level required.
Training. The following training is mandatory for award of the AFSC indicated:
1T031. Completion of the following courses:
L3AQR1T031-0S0A; SERE Specialist Selection.
S-V89-A; SERE Specialist Indoctrination.
S-V80-A; Survival, Evasion, Resistance & Escape (SERE) Training.
S-V90-A; Water Survival, Nonparachuting.
S-V80-B; Emergency Parachute Training.
S-V84-A; Underwater Egress.
S-V81-A; SERE Specialist Training.
L5AZA1T231; US Army Basic Airborne Course.
1T051. Completion of the following courses:
S-V86-A; Water Survival, Parachuting.
S-V87-A; Arctic Survival Training.
1T071. Completion of the following courses:
SERE-260; Joint Resistance Training Instructor Course.
PR-102; Fundamentals of Personal Recovery.
PR-240; Personnel Recovery Debriefer’s Course.
J5ACP1T071 0S7A; SERE Specialist Craftsman Course.
Experience. The following experience is mandatory for award of the AFSC indicated:
1T051. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 1T031. Also, experience teaching and applying global SERE principles, procedures, techniques, and equipment; emergency parachuting procedures; living under primitive conditions; survival medicine; rough land travel and evacuation procedures; land and water navigation and travel; use of post-egress survival and life support equipment; PR JTTP; escape and evasion techniques; combat communication, signaling, and recovery procedures; CSAR operations; survival in nuclear, chemical, and biological contamination conditions; and conduct after capture during wartime, peacetime governmental detention, and hostage detention guidance including survival adaptations, Communication, organization, resistance to exploitation, and escape TTPs.
1T071. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 1T051. Also, experience in performing or supervising SERE functions and training activities.
1T091. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 1T071. Also, experience in managing and directing SERE operations and training programs.
Other. The following are mandatory as indicated: For entry into this specialty: Successful completion of the SERE Physical Ability and Stamina Test (PAST). Physical and psychological qualifications for SERE Specialist and parachutist duty according to AFI 48-123, Medical Examinations and Standards. Absence of any speech impediment and ability to read aloud and speak distinctly. For award and retention of AFSC 1T031/51/71/91. Specialty requires routine access to Secret material or similar environment. For award and retention of AFSCs 1T0XX, completion of a current National Agency Check, Local Agency Checks and Credit (NACLC) according to AFI 31‑501, Personnel Security Program Management. NOTE: Award of the 3-skill level without a completed NACLC is authorized provided an interim Secret security clearance has been granted according to AFI 31-501. Physical and psychological qualification for SERE Specialist duty according to AFI 48-123.
