The new Royal Navy Survival Equipment School (RNSES) initially took up residence at Eastleigh, Hampshire, before it was moved to improved accommodation at Grange Airfield (HMS Siskin) in March 1947.

It remained there until September 1991, when it relocated to the former Naval Aircraft Technical Evaluation Centre (NATEC) building at RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus).

It disbanded in April 1949, but was replaced by the Survival and Rescue Mobile Instruction Unit (SRMIU), again at Thorney Island, in January 1950.

The SRMIU would provide training to personnel during annual visits to RAF stations, but that method was considered inadequate, and in 1955, the Search, Rescue and Survival School was established as part of No.

Regular Army personnel are tested as part of their Military Annual Training Tests (MATTs)[11] as befits their frontline nature (similar processes are run by the Royal Marines and RAF Regiment) with non-frontline personnel mandated to watch a DVD detailing SERE methods.

[12] UK armed forces personnel who train at the SERE school may be subject to methods of interrogation that are prohibited under international law.

That training is carried out under strictly-controlled conditions and is delivered only to enable the trainees to understand the methods that may be used against them if they are captured by hostile forces who are not signatories of or adherents to the Geneva Convention or of international law.

[14] SERE training is also delivered to aircrew because the nature of their job makes them vulnerable to capture if they must bail out over or crash an aircraft into hostile territory.