Why No SERE officers?

[Sciencnerd]

So I've been exploring around some career options for after USAFA, and I realized that the SERE specialists are only enlisted. So I guess I have two questions:
Why are there no SERE officers?
What's the closest officer career to SERE?

 

[cb7893]

Are you talking about SERE School as in Survive, Evade, Resist, Escape?

 

[OldRetSWO]

So I've been exploring around some career options for after USAFA, and I realized that the SERE specialists are only enlisted. So I guess I have two questions:
Why are there no SERE officers?
What's the closest officer career to SERE?

Probably because it is not a recognized career area. The Navy has SERE school as well and the people who run it come from regular officer and enlisted communities like Special Ops.

 

[raimius]

So, SERE specialists and instructors do not normally do a lot of leadership and command duties. That is probably why they don't have an officer AFSC. They are advisors, teachers, and experts--but not in command of much.

It is a cool, but strange field that includes everything from prehistoric hunting techniques to extremely high-tech communications.

 

[UHBlackhawk]

At most SERE schools the only commissioned officer is probably the CO and some specialty officers such as the psychiatrist. I found out about the prison camp having a psychiatrist as my class had one as one of our “war criminals”.
So in the Air Force this commander is probably a Combat Rescue officer. At the US Army Colonel Nick Rowe Training compound at Camp Mackall I’m going to guess an SF officer. At the US Army SERE school at Ft Rucker, probably an Aviation officer. The Navy school… no clue.

 

[Old Navy BGO]

It's really not a dedicated career path in the Navy. I had a few Ordinancemen (AO's) and a CWO who had done tours as SERE instructors in my Squadron (I was in Brunswick Maine, so they were probably homesteading, staying in the same area).

 

[UHBlackhawk]

It's really not a dedicated career path in the Navy. I had a few Ordinancemen (AO's) and a CWO who had done tours as SERE instructors in my Squadron (I was in Brunswick Maine, so they were probably homesteading, staying in the same area).

Same in the Army. Most of the instructors at Camp Mackall were retired SF civilians. I think the camp guards were active duty and retired SF, maybe some psyops as well. But I wasn’t really in a position to ask them.