A Brief History
In June 1959 the Search, Rescue and Survival School was established.
The Royal Air Force (RAF) can trace Combat Survival Training back to May 1943 with the formation of the School of Air/Sea Rescue, located near RAF Squire Gate, in Lancashire.
The School of Air/Sea Rescue was eventually named the Search, Rescue and Survival School (SR&SS) and was established as part of No. 2 Air Navigation School and moved to RAF Mount Batten, near Plymouth, in June 1959, when it was renamed the School of Combat Survival and Rescue (SCSR) to reflect the combat environment in which it was expected that survival and rescue skills would typically be used.
The School of Combat Survival & Rescue moved RAF Mount Batten closed in 1992, with the SCSR School of Combat Survival and Rescue school relocated to RAF St Mawgan.
The Defence Survive, Evade, Resist, Extract (SERE) Training Organisation (DSTO) was created in 2008, when the RAF’s School of Combat Survival and Rescue was amalgamated with the Royal Navy’s Survival Equipment Group and the Resistance Training Wing.
Although DSTO is a tri-service organisation, it comes under the control of No. 22 Group within RAF Air Command.
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