SERE specialists teach McConnell Airmen

Airman 1st Class Audrey Pope, 22nd Operations Support Squadron aircrew flight equipment apprentice, grapples with Staff Sgt. Julius Reed, 22nd OSS aircrew flight equipment journeyman, during a Level 1 Modern Army Combatives training course, July 20, 2010, McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. The course is designed to instill confidence in the trainees' ability to defend themselves, attack and subdue an enemy and develop mental toughness. The course also helps instill warrior ethos and provide Airmen with a basic set of unarmed combat skills. The course lasts five days and is held quarterly by Tech. Sgt. Joseph Rheaume and Staff Sgt. Charles Millison, 22nd OSS survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialists. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Andrea Salazar)

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SERE specialists teach McConnell Airmen

Tech. Sgt. Joseph Rheaume, 22nd Operations Support Squadron survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialist, demonstrates an arm-bar submission technique on Staff Sgt. Charles Millison, 22nd OSS SERE specialist, July 20, 2010, McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. Sergeants Rheaume and Millison instruct a Level 1 Modern Army Combatives course that is targeted to Airmen deploying with U.S. Army forces. The goal of the course is to build hand-to-hand combat abilities by teaching realistic combative training methods for battlefield Airmen. For more information and enrollment, call 759-4915. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Andrea Salazar)

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SERE specialists teach McConnell Airmen

Tech. Sgt. Rheaume, 22nd Operations Support Squadron survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialist, teaches Airman 1st Class, Jared Barlett, 22nd OSS aircrew flight equipment apprentice, how to properly perform a submission hold during a Level 1 Modern Army Combatives training course, July 22, 2010, McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. During the course, instructors help combatives students understand the techniques of what they are practicing and the logic behind them to maximize their power, speed and efficiency in any given situation. The goal of the course is to build hand-to-hand combat abilities by teaching realistic combative training methods for battlefield Airmen. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Andrea Salazar)

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SERE specialists teach McConnell Airmen

Airman 1st Class Jared Barlett, 22nd Operations Support Squadron aircrew flight equipment apprentice, blocks a punch from Staff Sgt. Charles Millison, 22nd OSS survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialist, during a combatives training course, July 22, 2010, McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. Throughout the course, Airmen were educated with a basic set of unarmed combat skills to defend themselves in any given situation. The course lasts five days and is held quarterly by Tech. Sgt. Joseph Rheaume and Staff Sgt. Charles Millison, McConnell’s SERE specialists. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Andrea Salazar)

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SERE specialists teach McConnell Airmen

Published July 28, 2010
By Staff Sgt. Ronald Lafosse
22nd Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs

MCCONNELL AIR FORCE BASE, Kan. --

Tech. Sgt. Joseph Rheaume and Staff Sgt. Charles Millison, 22nd Operations Support Squadron survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialists, taught Airmen a Level 1 Modern Army Combatives training course, July 20, 2010, McConnell Air Force Base, Kan.

The course is designed to instill confidence in the trainees' ability to defend themselves, attack and subdue an enemy and develop mental toughness. The course also helps instill warrior ethos and provide Airmen with a basic set of unarmed combat skills. The course lasts five days and is held quarterly.