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My Unstable Mind | May 3rd, 2011 | Mariner

[Mariner]

With all the renewed talk about waterboarding I thought it would be a good thing to open a thread where folks who have been waterboarded can sign and leave their comments for posterity.

The rest of the Freepers can thank us for our service and sacrifice in perfecting this effective non-torture technique.

And, there is not one person who has administered a session that has not themselves been "on the board".

[antiRepublicrat]

So at what precise point does interrogation become torture? If I keep you awake a little too long? Leave the lights on? Play Britney Spears 24/7?

[Magnum44]

Also Warner Springs in Oct 85...

[Mariner]

"Also Warner Springs in Oct 85..."

June 79 for me.

Prickly pears. Yuk. Our whole crew found about 2.

On day 5 or so one of the trainer came to camp with a dead jack rabbit (there were 40 or 50 of us) and I got the eye.

That was as hungry as I had ever been. Stung by wasps, blisters, sunburned, beaten/bruised, waterboarded and no more than 3 hours sleep in the final 4 days.

We had plenty of clean, fresh water though:)

[redshawk]

Hey Talisker, last week a I got a email about the ‘post turtle’. Was that you who started that? Really loved that email.

sorry for the vanity on this post.

[Mariner]

It’s apparent Talisker has an opinion not based in reality.

[BIGLOOK]

SERE at North Island and Warner Springs, '69.

The 'guards' would pick out 3 or four for a waterboarding demonstration with the rest of us watching. I wasn't one chosen...thankfully. The 'voluteers' would give up their little sisters after the second pail.

VQ-1

[Mariner]

"VQ-1 "

We both spent time on Guam. You were the next hangar over.

[Mariner]

Changing my tagline.

[BIGLOOK]

Nope, detached to VQ-1 flying out of DaNang. VQ-1 was homed in Atsugi at that time and covered both N. Viet Nam and Korea a rotation.

I didn't get to rotate with the A/C.....stuck in DaNang.

PR-21, PR-23, PR-24, PR-26 and 27, PR-31 and Pr-32.

[AvOrdVet]

SERE/CWST Brunswick, Maine ‘91... the winter of love, at 35 below, I would have snuggled with Keith Olbermann to keep warm... Water Boarding? that was for little girls compared to what we got.

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[Kakaze]

If I “had” been I would never publicly or privately confirm it.

[Noob1999]

Supposedly KSM was waterboarded how many times: 168??

Sooner or later you have to recognize that this contined treatment is horseshit and you’re not going to be allowed to die, so F’em, go with the plan!

[Noob1999]

Supposedly KSM was waterboarded how many times: 168??

Sooner or later you have to recognize that this contined treatment is horseshit and you’re not going to be allowed to die, so F’em, go with the plan!

[Mariner]

"Supposedly KSM was waterboarded how many times: 168??"

Mis/Disinformation.

He spent 2 minutes on the waterboard and purred like a kitten from that time forward.

[Mariner]

"If I “had” been I would never publicly or privately confirm it."

Dude. It's already public information as to what goes on at SERE. It's been on the news.

You are free to speak about it now...legally:)

[Balata]

I got the eye

Man, you got all the Vitamin C. We got a rabbit and a squirrel.

[Broker]

BROKER was waterboarding Spring 1975 near San Diego courtesy of US Navy SERE School. We were in training for overseas assignments vulnerable to foreign capture and torture. My treatment was particularly severe in retribution for flipping an combatant officer over my shoulder to the dirt. On the board I passed out and scared these faux combatants.

Waterboarding is no big deal.

[dglang]

Did you really mean to say vitamin see?

[Balata]

The aqueous humour of the rabbits eye serves as a source of vitamin C. We were told the only higher source of vitamin C in a survival situation was rose pedals and we wouldn’t see any of those. That’s the story they gave us.