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kuresu
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Message 7 of 14 (393737)
04-06-2007 4:46 PM
Reply to: Message 6 by Chiroptera
04-06-2007 4:31 PM


My international affairs professor this year was in the navy for a little over 20 years. prior to vietnam, the policy was to say nothing. now they teach you how to hold out as long as possible, but that you will eventually break, and that it's okay.
as part of his training, he was water-boarded (i think that's the term for it).
(the above is what he has told us, relayed by my memory)

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kuresu
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Message 14 of 14 (393823)
04-07-2007 2:42 PM
Reply to: Message 12 by CK
04-07-2007 7:37 AM


if you'll read up a few posts, I made one about the american military and torture--we are no longer trained to only give out name, rank, and serial number.
We have the north vietnamese to thank for that. the goal now--if you're captured, survive. it's okay to spill secrets to live.
(this is all second hand though--relayed to my international affairs class by our professor, who had been in the US navy for some 20 odd years).

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