Tom Drake

I also chose to go airborne. I wanted to go airborne, and I wanted to be assigned overseas. So I went through basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, and then I went on to Monterey. It's the foreign language center, Bresidio Monterey Defense Language Institute. And that's where I learned basic German to a level where you could have at least basic understanding. Focus was all comprehension.

You're spending your time listening. You're not spending your time talking. So it was primarily, but with a military flavor. I went to advanced classified training, highly classified training at Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo. So now we're in the spring of 1980. Then a very interesting series of trainings. This is even before I go overseas, which involves survival school.

You're spending your time listening. You're not spending your time talking. So it was primarily, but with a military flavor. I went to advanced classified training, highly classified training at Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo. So now we're in the spring of 1980. Then a very interesting series of trainings. This is even before I go overseas, which involves survival school.

You're spending your time listening. You're not spending your time talking. So it was primarily, but with a military flavor. I went to advanced classified training, highly classified training at Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo. So now we're in the spring of 1980. Then a very interesting series of trainings. This is even before I go overseas, which involves survival school.

So I was at Fairchild Air Force Base. And I went through, in the field, surviving. I mean, this is the SEER program. It's the whole survive, escape, resist. It's a whole program in which you learn how to evade, how to survive, how to resist, and how to escape. That's, well, the initials for SEER. So they had a prisoner of war camp.

So I was at Fairchild Air Force Base. And I went through, in the field, surviving. I mean, this is the SEER program. It's the whole survive, escape, resist. It's a whole program in which you learn how to evade, how to survive, how to resist, and how to escape. That's, well, the initials for SEER. So they had a prisoner of war camp.

So I was at Fairchild Air Force Base. And I went through, in the field, surviving. I mean, this is the SEER program. It's the whole survive, escape, resist. It's a whole program in which you learn how to evade, how to survive, how to resist, and how to escape. That's, well, the initials for SEER. So they had a prisoner of war camp.

It had a highly classified component, which is how do you resist when they're psychologically torturing and interrogating.

It had a highly classified component, which is how do you resist when they're psychologically torturing and interrogating.

It had a highly classified component, which is how do you resist when they're psychologically torturing and interrogating.

Oh, yeah. This is still super classified stuff, right? Still super classified. It's probably of all the trainings I received in the military, it's the one that has stuck with me the most after all these years.

Oh, yeah. This is still super classified stuff, right? Still super classified. It's probably of all the trainings I received in the military, it's the one that has stuck with me the most after all these years.

Oh, yeah. This is still super classified stuff, right? Still super classified. It's probably of all the trainings I received in the military, it's the one that has stuck with me the most after all these years.

And we can get back to that later because there were certain things about that training that actually helped me resist the government, deal with the government. Oh, wow. So I was actually using training that the government paid for during my survival school at SEER. Wow. in Fairchild, Air Force Base in Eastern Washington.

And we can get back to that later because there were certain things about that training that actually helped me resist the government, deal with the government. Oh, wow. So I was actually using training that the government paid for during my survival school at SEER. Wow. in Fairchild, Air Force Base in Eastern Washington.

And we can get back to that later because there were certain things about that training that actually helped me resist the government, deal with the government. Oh, wow. So I was actually using training that the government paid for during my survival school at SEER. Wow. in Fairchild, Air Force Base in Eastern Washington.

The actual in the field part of survival and evading, and we're talking extremely rigorous. It's still a training environment, so they had Safety monitors, there was boundaries, but we were out in the woods for quite a few days. During this training. During this training, learning how to survive. And then you come back, you go through prisoner of war camp. That was quite something.

The actual in the field part of survival and evading, and we're talking extremely rigorous. It's still a training environment, so they had Safety monitors, there was boundaries, but we were out in the woods for quite a few days. During this training. During this training, learning how to survive. And then you come back, you go through prisoner of war camp. That was quite something.

The actual in the field part of survival and evading, and we're talking extremely rigorous. It's still a training environment, so they had Safety monitors, there was boundaries, but we were out in the woods for quite a few days. During this training. During this training, learning how to survive. And then you come back, you go through prisoner of war camp. That was quite something.

I actually went through everything you heard about later, which became the torture program, which they called enhanced interrogation techniques.