 As a result, Serong was sent to Burma as a counter-insurgency instructor with the Burmese armed forces, lecturing senior officers for a few months in 1957 before returning to Australia.Serong subsequently advocated the dispatch of a small team of Australian officers to assist in training the Burmese, but this did not occur.At the request of Muang Muang, Serong returned to Burma in 1960, serving in Rangoon as a strategic adviser to the Burmese armed forces.