Mike Ritz, a former army interrogator, says the techniques are very familiar to anyone who has gone through what is dubbed SERE training - survival, evasion,resistance,and escape.
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It's the same for the other members of the Combat Search And Rescue team, from the pilots and aircrews, to the Combat Rescue Officers and Survival Evasion Resistance andEscape (SERE) specialists.
All of these interrogation methods have been adapted from the U.S. military's own Survival Evasion Resistance Escape (or SERE) training program, and have been used for years on thousands of American service members with the full knowledge of Congress.