SERE Plan

HAVOC 1 - 3 SERE PLAN

1. Flight Overview: Surveillance and intelligence flight to a new hot zone in the 17T NJ 547 227 area. Crew to attend review all flight briefs prior to departure and present SERE plan to control in the event that HAVOC 1 - 3 is grounded. Crew to take notes during flight briefs on items relevant to SERE.

1. Flight preparation: Crew and ground teams will check all survival and rescue equipment prior to departure as a part of pre-flight checks.

Required Survival kit on aircraft (in addition to those personally brought by crew):

-Personal survival kit x 3 (Generic)

-TACBE Radio x 1

-NATO Personal Floatation Device

-Life Raft x 1

-Sidearm x 1

-Space blankets x 3

-GPS unit x 1

-Assorted signals (mirrors, glow sticks, flashlight, high-vis panels)

-Rations x 6

-Pen Flare x 2 (RED)

-Large First Aid Kit (in addition to personal first aid equipment)

-Assorted local currency.

1. Priority of sequence of actions on being grounded (if applicable)

-First aid.

-Regroup (if bail out)

-Account of serviceable equipment and sensitive equipment from crash or what was obtained during bailout.

-Establish Communications with Control.

-Gain distance from the crash site.

-Determine location, assessment of situation.

-Signal for rescue.

-Walk to extraction point

1. Prepared Assumptions and Contingencies

-Acknowledgement that not all kit may not survive a controlled or uncontrolled grounding of HAVOC 1 - 3. May be prepared to work with less than what the flight inventory has to offer. May need to procure equipment locally to survive, evade, resist and escape.

-Working on the assumption that the relevant caches are in place and intact.

-Acknowledgement that communications with Control will be critical to rescue and that communications is a priority.

-Acknowledgement that if no functional communications on being grounded, moving towards prepared CACHES may be a real possibility or priority if communications gear not serviceable.

-Acknowledgement that communications equipment may require higher elevation and that CSAR will account for this.

-Working on the assumption that CSAR and Control will be using similar communication devices to HAVOC 1 - 3.

-Working on the assumption that CSAR will be looking to make contact and rescue HAVOC 1 - 3 in the unlikely event they are grounded and survive impact.

-Acknowledgement that interaction with the local populace and entering private property may lead to compromise and enforcement.

-Prepared to abandon flight clothing and obtain civilian clothing.

-Working on the assumption that if grounded and extraction does not occur by 1200h on August 11, 2019, Havoc 1 - 3 will adopt radio silence and head for exfil by own means. Assume CSAR will not be coming.

-If communication with Control is established and is unexpectedly lost, Control is advised to assume actions coordinated via comms are compromised (along with contingencies plans arranged via comms). Despite loss of communications after reestablishing initial comms with CONTROL, HAVOC 1 - 3 will attempt to meet the coordinated actions and reestablish communications if able.

-Working on assumption that CSAR is aware that HAVOC 1 - 3 is concerned with self preservation and a slow release of information after cover story may be considered in the event of capture.

-Will be working on the assumption that CSAR will be following our probable routes and that we will prepare a minimum of one dead drop along the route to state intentions.

-Dead drop will be marked along route with a pattern of four vertical RED STRIPS of trail tape or FOUR STRIPS OF RED PARACORD

1. SERE Training, Notes, Preparations

-Shelter and hide building, low profile, concealment over comfort.

-Water procurement and purification.

-Travel at night when possible.

-Fire starting.

-Energy conservation.

-Signalling for arranged rendezvous: Lights (four blasts) whistle (four blasts), mirror, glow stick buzz saw, high-vis panel marked with “Y” in black, four high vis tie offs for dead drops

-High vis panel may be vs-17 or improvised

-Escaping once captured more difficult over time.

-If captured may be necessary divulge information slowly.

1. Communications

1. Unit will transmit on primary frequency 462.5875 (2) for three (3) minutes and then on secondary frequency 467.5875 (9) for three (3) minutes to avoid triangulation by indigenous forces. Transmissions occur daily at 0000h, 0300h, 0600h, 0900h, 1200h, 1500h, 1800h, and 2100h

1. Primary: 462.5875 (Channel 2)
2. Alternate: 467.5875 (Channel 9)
3. Contingency: Facebook Messenger (internal havoc 13 only, will not use facebook comms with csar or control).
4. Emergency: Phone as applicable and zello (emergency services, game control)

1. Priority information
   1. Authentication
   2. Location;
   3. Status (medical, well being);
   4. Observations on indigenous actions; and
   5. Receive instructions.

1. Codewords:

NODUFF = Real safety / risk issue

HAVOC 1 - 3 = Flight crew x 3

-HAVOC 13A - Pilot

-HAVOC 13B - Co-pilot

-HAVOC 13C - Navigator - Flight Engineer

SHEEP = Indigenous Militia (hostile or otherwise)

SCION = Friendly partisans / locals

SPIKE = Communications

CHINA = Rescue (act of)

191 = CSAR Team

09A = Control

1. Authentication/Encryption: 11 letter Isogram. Authenticate 2 right of challenge, Authentication needs to occur both ways. Havoc 1-3 will challenge and authenticate CSAR, then vice versa:

K

I

N

G

F

L

O

W

E

R

S

8

7

2

3

6

4

5

9

0

.

1

Example

Challenge: India

Reply: Three

Challenge: Lima

Reply: Niner

Challenge: Whisky

Reply: “Nil” / “Period”

Dead Drop Playfair Cipher

1. Keyword – “PANTIES”

2. Fill 5 x 5 square starting with keyword

· Follow with rest of alphabet sequentially after keyword

· Combine the letter “J” with “I” (both count as same letter; remove “J”)

. Do not repeat letters when filling in box

3. Encryption (right, down, box)

· Separate letters into pairs, if uneven amount then add “X” to end

· If letters in same row, move right one; wrap around to left column if at end of box

· If letters in same column, move down one; wrap around to top row if at bottom

· If none of above, form box and swap horizontally at opposite corners

Example: “HI DE FI VE KM AT ON ES IX TH RE EX” (“X” added because uneven letters)

HI = LN (box; swap with opposite corner)

·

DE = ES (same row, move each letter right one - “D” wraps around)·

FI = LP (box)

VE = PF (same column, move each letter down one - “V” wraps around)·

Fully encrypted: “LNES LPPF FR NI QAS BNZ NKMCBV”

o Spacing optional - e.g., “LNESLPPFFRNIQASBNZNKMCBV”

4. Decryption (up, left, box)

· Must use same key as encryption

· Reverse direction of column and row rules – i.e., same column move each letter up one; same row move each letter left one

· Box rule remains same (swap letter with opposite corner horizontally)