I recently learned during an ROTC briefing that U.S. military servicemembers attending SERE-C school (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape) are waterboarded as part of their stress-inoculation training. I'm definitely not making a final judgement call in favor of the technique, or coercive interrogation in general. However, I do think the fact that we somewhat-routinely waterboard our own soldiers, sailors, and airmen as part of training weakens that case that waterboarding is a form of torture, and legitimates it as an interrogation technique.
I'm interested in hearing what everyone else thinks.
JFK Special Warfare School webpage on SERE training. Obviously it avoids any controversial subjects.
Both of these article are rather obviously trying to make a political statement, but they do highlight the relationship between SERE training and coercive interrogation. I'm not claiming to agree with the conclusions, though.
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