Question for the military people:

[LiberalArkie]

I always thought that waterboarding was when a person was anchored to a backboard, then drowned, and the resuscitated over and over again until they confessed to what you wanted. If that is not waterboarding, then what is that technique called?

[MannyGoldstein]

1. It''s Called

Yet another thing that we didn't do to POWs in WWII (Remember? The one we won?)

[napi21]

2. Here's more than you want to know about waterboarding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding

I didn't look, but they even have a video!

[BrotherBuzz]

3. Waterboarding was never mentioned in any Army Interrogation manual....

I ever read, and I maintained (and read) all my unit's classified material.

[LiberalArkie]

4. I don't think it was called waterboarding, but I seem to remember

a method where the person was actually drowned and then brought back, sometimes with a defib. I just can't remember what it was called.

[BrotherBuzz]

7. Well, the practice, what ever it was called, was not authorized in the US Army

back when I was in the 'Mean Green Fighting Machine'. Cripes, maybe we were altruistic because we believed in and respected the Geneva Conventions :shrug:

[nealmhughes]

5. Six years in the USN sub service, and believe you me, we never ever

knew such a thing existed, and if it did we would not have used it on one another even in crossing the equator, except we "never" knew where we were and even our "silly" frat boyesque pranks were on one another.

I can't imagine any commissioned Navy officer allowing that to occur in his sight or knowledge. I can't imagine any CPO or PO allowing this to happen, unless ordered, and then I doubt they would participate, or at least I like to believe that we would not. I would not have, I can guarantee you that.

[spag68]

9. Glad to see another shellback on board

US Norfolk, crossed fall of 1960

[Nickster]

6. Sorry, can't find anything in my old Army field manual. Guess I'm out

of touch with the "new" Army and all the torture techniques that I could learn.....

[two gun sid]

8. Never heard of such a thing....

The USNavy taught me about the Geneva Conventions the 2nd week of Boot Camp. The really cool part was how it protected me too.

<on edit> It's called a War Crime.