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your stating. While in M.I., our interrogators gave a short course on counter-interrogation techniques (attempting to learn as much from the interrogator while not spilling anything) but that was a long time ago and was only a few hours long "semi-official" course. I really don't remember much except to lie your ass off. Then as an infantryman, (the most likely to be captured, except maybe for aircrews) deny you know anything. But I do remember one thing from both MOS's. The U.S. Military no longer has unrealistic expectations of strict adherence to name, rank, SSN, date of birth. The code does state "to the best of your ability." As long as you don't willingly collaborate and truthfully hold out as long as possible without giving up too much info that'll get your fellow service members killed, you'll be excused. In other words, it is highly subjective. I'd like to think I'd be able to hold out like our POW Vets from
Vietnam did, but I really don't know. Also as far as I know, all the POW's from Vietnam who "collaborated" were forgiven except for that one Marine Corporal. And in not just my opinion but most Marines I know - including my brother, a Marine Rifleman Vet- believe he was super screwed over by the U.S. Government. Any of that help?
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Conduct, which has evolved from the heroic lives, experiences and deeds of Americans from the Revolutionary War to Operation: Iraqi Freedom." "Operation: Iraqi Freedom" didn't happen until 2003. So this article contradicts itself; either the provided text is wrong, or it has been amended more recently than 1988 - some time during or after 2003. The
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to permanent POW camps, were most likely to be suspected (by Allied control authorities) of having collaborated with the enemy (b/c they weren't expected by their commanders back home to spend a week, for example, refusing to provide any info but name, rank and serial number). If you haven't read this book, but you're interested in the topic, I highly recommend it, and it will open your eyes to why there's a Code, but how it can leave any reasonably educated or sophisticated soldier facing quite the "moral" dilemma!
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Japenese didn't immediately turn to murdering captured or surrendering prisoners of war and historically we all know how they felt about those who surrendered. Any comments or knowledge of any studies, facts on this subject?
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Thinking on this subject, something curious just entered my mind. The four vilest enemy the U.S. ever faced in war, Japan, Germany, Korea and
Vietnam who all used murder as a tool did not use murder as their standard immediate go-to upon capturing their uniformed enemy. What does this say about the
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Infantry and M.I. Vet. Years of service 1989-1993 (M.I.) 1994-1997 (Infantry). (I get asked this a lot so I'll save everyone from asking. I re-enlisted as Infantry cuz I just wanted to live the "other-half" of the Army.). So I believe I may have a unique view point on what I think
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There's more, too, but I can't find the excerpt right now, and it's the most salient part! Basically it's said that the US aircrew in WW2 who "resisted" interrogation for the longest time, and thus spent the longest period of time in the transient
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