<p>I think I am going to name my rabbit tasty. Or maybe scrumptious. Oh I know! Mr. Delicious. Any other good names ya'll can think of?</p>
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<p>Are you sure hornet? I've heard they aren't bringing back full on SERE for a couple more years.</p>
<p>no Hornet is right. We've had some friends who have already gone through the Resistance portion of SERE last summer, like bullet, they can't say what went on and had to sign a cinfidentiality clause. Anyway, SERE is on the move back to becoming a full program. 2 and 3 digs, get the chance to partake in Conduct after capture training during dead week this year in order to help ramp them up for SERE Cadre.</p>
<p>Bluesuiter how about Wascally Wabbit (isn't that what Elmer called Bgs?) I truly hope you are not Elmer</p>
<p>"Mr. Fluffy"
"Bugs"</p>
<p>..."Thumper" (depending on what kind of trap you use!)</p>
<p>Fuzzy Bunny also works</p>
<p>We knew a guy waaaaaaayyyyyyyyy back when and he would count 1 fuzzy bunny, 2 fuzzy bunny, etc. Needless to say the pilot was about to kill the guy</p>
<p>Bullet has me in stitches right now...his name choice is BREAKFAST</p>
<p>You have to egg Bullet on to tell you his story, but needless to say I was rolling when he told me it!</p>
<p>That is great news! Its about time. If they supervise it properly this time they won't have the problem they had in 1993.</p>
<p>I know of a MSgt that went back for a refresher, so he knew what was coming, and named is Entree. The best part is that when he got around to killing it he had it on a leash and tossed it in the air, jerked the leash back, and broke its neck. He told me that he had a couple female LTs around and a TSgt when he did it too. Apparently it freaked the LTs out and the Tech just looked at the ground shaking his head and saying that he wasn't going to hear an end to this.</p>
<p>Well, I guess that was fairly humane...and theatrical...</p>
<p>My parents both grew up poor and were both from families of nine kids. Meat of any kind was rare. I remember my mother telling me stories of my grandmother heading out to the back of their yard to "get somethin' special for dinner". She would catch a few chickens, hold them under one arm and with the other hand, snap their necks. Everyone's got to eat! :)</p>
<p>OK so how does SERE relate to CST? Potter was voluntold for CST, and she knows she will be doing the basic survival stuff this summer. She is really bumbed out becuase she thinks it will mean no Ops next year too. Will she have to complete full on SERE too? What have you guys heard?</p>
<p>My Mom told me about how they raised turkeys for the explicit purpose of TDAY dinner or XMAS dinner...kind of creepy to know you are eating something that was in your backyard only the day before. My Dad would also say that chickens do continue to run around after their nck was broken...UGH!</p>
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I have to tell you I went to bed snickering last night, b/c of Bullet's story. He was so funny about his feelings towards the bunny! Yes, it was also on a leash and he was in charge of it for the night. The way Bullet tells it, he also had had enough of the rabbit! </p>
<p>I will say he went to SERE when we were married and I just found out I was pregnant with DS1...it was kind of hard kissing him knowing he ate a bunny, but like he says everything tastes like chicken...it was harder knowing he ate bugs too!</p>
<p>In the end I am glad he went and not me, because I would have rather starved...yep, I would have conviced myself that it was a fasting diet! :)</p>
<p>My question is, as for keeping bunnies on a leash in the woods during the night - are you not a target for bigger prey like mountain lions, wolves, etc. coming into camp? Yikes!</p>
<p>Bullet went through it Washington State, I don't think there are alot of those animals.</p>
<p>Just imagine the person who has to sleep all night with the thing, seeing as you are not in tents or cots, but you make you bed out of nature...in other words bunny food!</p>
<p>BJ10Mom the bunny might be larger than potter so she could feed it to the Lion first. Hopefully they wont have many were CST is bein held.</p>
<p>ds - I have never heard of any problems with the cadets needing to fend off the animals from their own captured food.....but......the academy has been known to have "wild things" (and I don't mean the cadets) come visit on the T-zo. Way too close for me!</p>
<p>Our family always went camping for our vacations and as a child/youngster I can remember one time a bear opened a "sealed" cooler one night that was sitting on the picnic table, raccoons clawing at the tents, etc. As for the bear, that same grandmother I talked about earlier was outside the tents "shooing" the bear away! And the Daddies were freaking out at her boldness as she was out there with just a broom! (Black bears - Smokey Mountains). LOL </p>
<p>Back then, many moons ago that kind of thing was exciting. You know, the invincibility of it all. Maybe that's the part I am missing now - the invincibility of it all!</p>
<p>Bunnies and Turkeys and Bears! Oh My! :)</p>
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<p>She could also use it to weight her down from the wind!</p>
<p>BJ</p>
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<p>At Elmendorf we went camping as a squadron almost every weekend. We had a pop-up camper and our friend had a hard-sided. Every weekend Bruno would bring his chair and watch Bullet close down the camper, all he had to do was pull the chalks and drive away. His wife would always say that we would be the dental floss for the bears after he ate through the tents!
One time at a campground the rangers came to warn us about brown bears in the campground...DS2 was 3 and into Power Rangers...he kept talking into his Power Ranger wristwatch saying...Zordan, Warning Brown Bears, Over and Out</p>
<p>So now for the cadets going just change into ZORDAN BAD GUYS COMING!</p>
<p>She actually is required to have an escort on windy days when she crosses the T-zo.</p>
<p>I was at Blue's on Tuesday. I was sitting by the window with a friend. Then, I see what I think is a cat on the other side. Looking over I find a large Raccoon staring at me through the window. Yikes! Not 15 minutes later everyone was out on the patio dancing under the stars (and me watching for the 'coons). :) </p>
<p>ds- CST is SERE without the resistance training. I don't think potter will have to do resistance training for cadre, but I'm not sure.</p>