Sep 24, 2026 · 3 hr 6 min · 32 segments
Mike Jones, also known as Garand Thumb, is a U.S. Air Force veteran, firearms instructor, and one of the most recognizable voices in the firearms and tactical community. Through his platform, he tests…
Mike JonesGuest
Shawn RyanHost
You know, they pull Green Berets or they pe- pull people from other career fields who work in SERE for a bit.
The Air Force is the only branch that has a specific career field dedicated to SERE, and that's because the Air Force is so, so strong on this thought process of we always have to get our pilots.
We have to give them the most amount of training because we're not gonna leave a single man behind.
And the huge moniker behind SERE, um, is return with honor, which means a lot of things, and we can get into it, but the idea is that after you're separated from your unit, whether you are evading an enemy, whether you're captured and you go through torture, that at the end of that you can hold your head high and you can return back to your country with honor due to the training that you've received to ensure that you are, one, not giving away, you know, information to the enemy that could be damaging to your fellow US servicemen, or two, you're able to evade capture completely, thereby insulting the enemy, and you return to the country with honor.
And that's always been a huge part of the Air Force's approach to pilots, and that's a good, I would say, good feeling for all of our aviators, um, in the Air Force because they know that they're trained to that extremely high level.
We trained any DOD or D- uh, Department of War, uh, personnel who were potentially at risk.
We had a lot of SEAL teams come through as well for some of the more advanced training.
You know, they pull Green Berets or they pe- pull people from other career fields who work in SERE for a bit.
The Air Force is the only branch that has a specific career field dedicated to SERE, and that's because the Air Force is so, so strong on this thought process of we always have to get our pilots.
We have to give them the most amount of training because we're not gonna leave a single man behind.
And the huge moniker behind SERE, um, is return with honor, which means a lot of things, and we can get into it, but the idea is that after you're separated from your unit, whether you are evading an enemy, whether you're captured and you go through torture, that at the end of that you can hold your head high and you can return back to your country with honor due to the training that you've received to ensure that you are, one, not giving away, you know, information to the enemy that could be damaging to your fellow US servicemen, or two, you're able to evade capture completely, thereby insulting the enemy, and you return to the country with honor.
And that's always been a huge part of the Air Force's approach to pilots, and that's a good, I would say, good feeling for all of our aviators, um, in the Air Force because they know that they're trained to that extremely high level.
We trained any DOD or D- uh, Department of War, uh, personnel who were potentially at risk.
We had a lot of SEAL teams come through as well for some of the more advanced training.
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