Sere

[Lyter5]

How come no one has used SERE as a business name or in their title of a knife making business? Is it too cliche? Just looking for honest answers.

 

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http://www.trademarkia.com/sere-77002265.html

http://www.tactical-life.com/tactical-knives/martin-knives-t3-sere/



Keep searching, I think it's quite popular

 

[jhiggins]

Being talented is only the first step. Originality will sell knives.

 

[james terrio]

Yeah... there are already several companies/makers using that for one thing or another. It's catchy, but I'm afraid that window has closed.

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

I think ESEE took up that idea and SERE is just another version of it. Like The Count said, it is used by some folks. I personally pay 0 attention to catchy claims and names.....but then, I have never been part of the Sheeple.

 

[james terrio]

I think ESEE took up that idea and SERE is just another version of it...

Other way around...

SERE predates ESEE* Knives by a few decades. It stands for the Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape school started by the USAF in the 50's, to train pilots and so forth who might be lost or captured "behind the lines".

One of, if not the original purpose-built SERE knives:

*Escuela de Supervivencia-Evasion and Escape. Translated: School of Survival-Evasion and Escape.

 

[Sgt John]

It stands for the Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape school started by the USAF in the 50's, to train pilots and so forth who might be lost or captured "behind the lines".

One of, if not the original purpose-built SERE knives:

I had a SERE instructor come through our leadership school for the USAF, which I am proud to instruct, and the SERE dude hooked me up with one. The one I had received from him (decommissioned and no longer an issued item, which they put through h*** and back) is an Ontario Knife Company version, like the USAF has been using for many, many years. It's stamped on the pommel with "Ontario 6-89." Those knives are well built and can take a whooping!

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

James, that is what I was saying. The SERE school knife idea was picked up by the ESEE school and that is what people see and hear in production knives today. They are just two schools of the same though ( one with better PR and advertising, sometimes bordering on hype).

When I was a boy in the 50's/60's, the SERE course was a big topic for boys to discuss. We would hear about how trainees would be dropped off in the jungle in Panama or somewhere exotic and have to evade the others trying to find them as well as survive the trek out. It was never clear how much of those stories was myth, and how much as truth, but every boy heard them. I remember one story where the guys were dropped off naked and only had their survival knife. I heard that people sometimes did not survive. I figured there was a lot of exaggeration, but knew that the class was an amazingly rugged and thorough training event.


As I mentioned in another thread, when I was a kid the K-Bar and SERE style knives were surplus from the two wars ( WWII and Korea), and were everywhere for free or for a few bucks. We took them into the woods and chopped on trees, dug holes, and threw them at every solid object. I would love to still have all the ones I and my friends destroyed because we considered them "cheap knives" back then.