Here’s what I call the One Second Test I learned while attending the US Army SERE Instructor Course (SERE Level B).
By the way, SERE stands for Survival Escape Resistance and Evasion.
Before we carry-on with the One Second Test, you have to read:
“06 Survival Tricks To Gather & Purify Emergency Water?”
- The 3 Threes
- What is 35 divided by 7?
- The SERE Instructors Kept Laughing At Us! Why?
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OK, did you read those blog posts? Good, let’s carry-on.
As you read in those blog posts – “Lack of water dulls the mind.” And that’s 110% true.
Dehydration to severe dehydration eff-ups your mental faculties. So to test yourself and those under your care, the One Second Test will tell you if you or those under your care are going – Non-Compis Mentis (crazy).
A simple math problem should take you and others that are hydrated, no more than a second to come up with the answer.
Remember me, I tried to figure out 35 ÷ 7 = _________.
It took me 30 – 45 seconds to come up with the answer.
Any normal, hydrated person, it should take less than a second to come up with the answer of 5. It took me 30- 45 seconds to figure it out. I was messed-up. We were all messed-up, bad. But we all carried-on as best we could. Our Team (06 evaders) survived the evasion phase in the thick hot & 100% humidity of the Panamanian jungle, evading 02 platoons of infantry (80 soldiers) and drank no pure water, any water barely ate anything and now we were separated in the isolation phase and still sweating buckets. We were all severely hydrated. We turned into idiots. Our mental faculties were shot.
The point of all this, INSURE you and all those under your care are ALWAYS hydrated. Execute a forced-hydration schedule to insure everybody is hydrated.
But just in-case, spot check yourself and others and do the One Second Test:
35 ÷ 7 = ____________.
8 x 8 = _____________.
45 + 10 = ___________.
87 – 10 = ___________.
90 ÷ 3 = ____________.
7 x 8 = _____________.
35 + 35 = ___________.
49 – 29 = ___________.
Now you got plenty examples to do the One Second Test.
If you or anyone under your care fail the One Second Test, start drinking plenty of filtered & purified water immediately and conduct a re-test later in the day or night.
Read this whole story and many more true war stories:
https://www.survivaexpertblog.com/52-survival-books
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