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I'm pretty sure that a marine isn't supposed to make apologies and/or admissions to a captor but I'm not so sure why. Jacobs says they're only supposed to give their name, rank and serial number, but that seems overly strict.
Wrong - to start with, the big clue is that you are dealing with the BRITISH military, so it's a different beast from the American military to start with, so please don't apply your rules to our armed force because like shooting allies in the back, we do things in a different way.
Our soldiers/sailors are trained to do whatever their captors want them to do - we see it as a pointless endeavour to do anything else, if you have something they want, they will get it out of you. If they want you to go on the TV and say "X,Y and Z" - then that's what you do. I know it's sounds (to the american psyche grown up on rambo films) a fantastic idea to grit your teeth and say "no way" as they attach the car battery to your genitals - no so fantastic when you come home a cripple, a basketcase or in a pine box.
As for operational intel, well of course you do not give that up BUT British squaddies know so little, there is virtually nothing they could give up under torture anyway. If you
really have any secrets, they will pump you so full of drugs, that you would confess on your grandmother in a second.
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