No Torture In Survival Course For Air Force
No psychological pressure or physical maltreatment, reported to be used in similar courses overseas, will be applied to operational aircrews of the Royal New Zealand Air Force who are to undergo intensive courses in sur-
vival, evasion, and escape training.
The Minister of Defence (Mr T. L. Macdonald) gave this information to “The Press” yesterday. The course syllabus included lectures on capture and interrogation, he said. All members of air force operational squadrons are to take part in the survival exercises, which will begin at Wigram next month The first group will comprise 20 men. The exercises wiU continue until all men have gone through. “The R.N.Z.A.F. has introducedthese survival courses for operational aircrew as a consolidation of the elementary techniques taught earlier in their training at the Flying Training School, Wigram,” Mr Macdonald said. * ‘The .first week of these new
courses provides revision and consolidation of the survival techniques and includes a practical survival exercise lasting 72 hours. The first 24 hours is under the guidance of an instructor, and the remaining 48 hours is individual survival in a selected area in Canterbury.” The area will be from the Malvern hills to the sea and from the Rakaia to the Waimakariri rivers. Mr Macdonald said that the second week of the course would cover the teaching of escape and evasion techniques, and included a practical exercise lasting about 60 hours. The exercise was designed to provide the student with practical experience of escape and evasion, and he would be required to avoid searchers while going to a rendezvous. “This course is an innovation intended to consolidate the elementary principles taught earlier and thus enable operational aircrews to have experience in the methods of survival, escape, and evasion,” he said.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28262, 27 April 1957, Page 12
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