SERE instructor speaks out Part 1

My thanks go to Malcolm Nance, a former SERE instructor for the US Military, who published this essay back in 2007. I am reading his essay for educational purposes. I am not affiliated with the website below, where you can find the entire essay in its entirety, nor with the author of this article.




http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/2007/10/print/waterboarding-is-torture-perio/


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[CRs4Life]

Is this real?? I attended this training in 1991 as a Naval Aviator, was beaten, brainwashed, and humiliated. However, after this training I was more than ready for combat.

[55ella2007k]

@CRs4Life Well, then you understand that the training you underwent was RESISTANCE + SURVIVAL training - it wasn't training to torture your enemy. Correct?

[Zombpocalypse]

why did you post this video? how is any of this your business?

[55ella2007k]

@Zombpocalypse Why is it my business? When my own govt is in support of torture (I'm not talking about the SERE training, which is specifically designed to RESIST torture), then it's very much my business as a concerned citizen + human being. And it should be yours as well, unless you simply don't care.

[Zombpocalypse]

@55ella2007k oh, i certainly do care. i cared enough to enlist in the Marine Corps and serve my country. what have you ever done for America besides bitch about it?

[55ella2007k]

@Zombpocalypse I cared for the soldiers returning home, via my job in nursing. You do realize, I hope,, that many vets are totally forgotten once they've served - with the exception of ceremonies - which do not even begin to address the problems of returning vets. Please do not pre-judge me. I would highly recommend the book PACKING INFERNO, written by a Marine. It is gripping + you will be able to relate to many situations described therein. Please read it. It was not written by a liberal.

[bananacakes9]

Really? Look here we go giving MORE rights to Terrorists... They don't deserve rights. They deserve to die slow painful deaths. Did the terrorists care that the people who didn't die on impact or in the collapse of the twin towers who had to lay there to die from blood loss, crush syndrome, suffocation, and or asphyxiation. Fuck the Terrorists and the bleeding heart people who feel bad for them.

[admiralcrash1]

Let's not forget we let Japanese Unit 731 go unnoticed. America was bought off by the information provided by the horrible physical and mental experiments the Japanese did to the Chinese as well as US POW's. Money talks, not humanity.

[RFWUSA]

America didn't invent these. The enemy did. Lucky we have Americans with the guts to use em when they need to. Freedom...is not free.

[gerry301]

Obviously the SERE instructor is an 'expert' and I think his testemony that it is torchure is valid. To the question 'what kind of a nation are we that would resort to the use of waterboarding?. I could only argue that the waterboarding of Khalid uncovered the Philipine airline terrorist attacks and twarted them, thereby saving hundreds of human lives. What kind of nation would not use waterboarding to save its people as long as its used with discretion and purpose?

[bdtrap]

@Zombpocalypse

As a former Special Operator, I was absolutely apalled at Abu Gharib. Most of the elite military forces were. Why, you ask? Did they not do worse to us? Did they not do worse to their own? Yes, they did. But many people, especially ground troops, forget one of our guiding principles -- "We're better than that."

The nations of the World are in your debt for your service; but let us not lose sight of our honored purpose, brother. We are instruments of **humanity**

[diabeticmonkey]

"Torture" is necessary to break someone, especially if they have vital info that could save lives in my opinion.

[aptxxxtimmy]

sere training will save your life, its brutal and intense but if you get captured by the enemy especially our enemy right now who does not follow the loac, its gonna be a 100 times worse.

[Toarn]

@admiralcrash1 At the time that we found out about unit 731, the United States had just nuked 2 civilian cities, not to mention all of the villages that we fire bombed. Those attacks were necessary to win the war, and in the end saved lives, but pointing out civilian deaths still wasn't popular back then.

[lildude10100]

i bet you wrote that paragraph and you just wanted to use his name cuz i really bet that a navy seal would write to you.... i dont get people like you.

[USNNick]

@55ella2007k If the US Government is waterboarding al qaeda,why do you get upset about it.You aren't looking at it fairly.Look at it from the other way.If it were up to the Al Qaeda, or the Taliban,you would be dead were you stand.These people have killed innocent civilians.Do you not realize that, 2,000 innocent people were killed, for no reason what so ever.Just this morning 22 DEVGRU's 3 CCT's and 7 160th SOAR's were killed, out of unjust act of hatred.