[pram]

What an absolutely pointless thing to get pedantic about. Put "spokane washington" into Google images and tell me if that looks like a desert to you.

[Manuel_D]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Yud6EFprZeaVDaeQ6

This is the view outside of Fairchild AFB, which runs the training course in question.

Wikipedia reports that Spokane has a Mediterranean climate, as does Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province where this F-15 is reported to have been shot down.

[justin66]

It's sad how quickly this comment thread went from someone talking about their experience at SERE to... this.

[littlestymaar]

On the contrary, as a European who only associates Washington State with the rainy Seatle I found the reality check rather enlightening.

[coffeebeqn]

WA has a crazy collection of microclimates. Ho oh rainforest, alpine at the various mountains, Yakima desert, mild and wet near Seattle, dry plains in the east of Cascades, etc.

[justin66]

Asperger’s spans the continents! It’s inspiring.

[hedgehog]

They're also wrong. The geographic center (around Ellensburg or so) is also in what is known as Eastern WA (east of the Cascades).

[cbron]

Spokane is Eastern Washington, the college in Cheney is literally called Eastern, its just not a desert.