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Byron Kerns
He's got the smoke-cured pedigree and it's backed with three decades of experience. As a former Air Force Survival (SERE) Instructor, Class 71-02, most would think Byron would be hard-charging and stern. Those who receive his teachings experience a completely different man - an instructor who is caring, humble, protective, serious, fun, passionate, emotional, and full of crazy stories. Byron has provided instruction to hundreds of small groups in a wilderness environment - people from all walks of life: an elite Navy SEAL Team, doctors, lawyers, business owners, pilots, teachers, law enforcement, rescue personnel, fire fighters, and Homeland Security to name a few. Gain his knowledge and learn his techniques. Change for the better your wilderness ways. https://www.airforce.com/careers/detail/survival-evasion-resistance-and-escape-sere |
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Emmitt Wakefield
As an independent contractor, Emmitt serves in the capacity of senior field instructor for Byron Kerns Survival. For nine years, Emmitt has been polishing his wilderness survival skills and knowledge, better understanding wilderness leadership and small group behavior, gaining valuable wilderness experience, and most importantly, learning what it takes to become an outstanding and caring wilderness survival instructor. To the before mentioned, Emmitt has completely surpassed and far exceeded the school's expectations. He continually seeks to better himself by improving his teaching relationship with students, and stoking his soul with his special and unique form of art: toy photography. |
Laurence Gonzales, author of the book, Deep Survival, says this:
"As I caught my first glimpse of our instructor, Byron Kerns, he swaggered toward us wearing an 18-inch machete, a big, macho looking guy. He had worked at the famous USAF Survival School in the state of Washington. When I saw him, I thought: We're in for it now. Byron turned out to be soft-spoken, polite, cheerfully earnest, and gentle to a fault. He moved slowly, never hurried, and was always carefully assessing himself and his environment. He wasn't prone to high emotional states. He carried with him a contagious air of calm. Even after a lifetime in the wilderness, Kerns entered the woods with a deep sense of respect, like a man approaching an unpredictable creature."
"As I caught my first glimpse of our instructor, Byron Kerns, he swaggered toward us wearing an 18-inch machete, a big, macho looking guy. He had worked at the famous USAF Survival School in the state of Washington. When I saw him, I thought: We're in for it now. Byron turned out to be soft-spoken, polite, cheerfully earnest, and gentle to a fault. He moved slowly, never hurried, and was always carefully assessing himself and his environment. He wasn't prone to high emotional states. He carried with him a contagious air of calm. Even after a lifetime in the wilderness, Kerns entered the woods with a deep sense of respect, like a man approaching an unpredictable creature."
To learn more about Laurence Gonzales and the book, Deep Survival, click HERE.
