Comments on: Code of Conduct

By: steve rogers

steve rogers — Fri, 02 May 2008 23:28:47 +0000

My future wife went through SERE at the Air Force Academy in the late 80’s when they still had the resistance (pow camp) portion of the training. She believes that this female could not have had any training of this nature. But it is hard to judge without knowing what she is really going through.

By: The Flight Deck » No Easy Answers

The Flight Deck » No Easy Answers — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 04:20:36 +0000

[...] have been reading the continuing comments in the Code of Conduct thread at Lex’s with a lot of interest. When I read today’s paper, my eyes kept coming [...]

By: Wu Wei

Wu Wei — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:09:30 +0000

There is no excuse for the way some of the hostages behaved, no matter what the British code of conduct is or what threats they were under. Some of them acted like tourists who were relieved that their lost luggage had been found, so they could leave the country. The real life experience of US POWs shows that even though a prisoner can be forced to read something, they can always find ways to show resistance if they want. Like the the POWs who read the words awkwardly and said them the wrong way, while at the same time blinking out morse code messages.

I don’t need to have been a POW in order to know the proper way to behave. Like everyone else I know the difference between right and wrong. I can’t know I would be strong enough to do the right thing because I haven’t been there, but I still know what that right thing is.

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:24:54 +0000

As an Airborne Combat Engineer (Sapper)and Desert Storm Veteran, I find the actions of the British seamen, while repugnant to me, to be right in line with modern British philosophy. The British soldiers that I met while on combined training excercises in Germany and whom I met in Iraq were of the old school caliber. NONE of us would ever think of acting like that. I would rather die than come home in dishonor like that. The Army has many mottos and such like Duty, Honor, Country…..Never leave a man behind….Death before dishonor and many more. Before deploying for Southwest Asia we were given a refresher course on what our duty was in the event of our capture. It did NOT include admiting guilt, aiding the enemy, shaking the little raghead’s hand and acting like we just finished a family reunion. I would have tried to break his little neck given the chance to be that close to him. Of course I would never have been taken alive to start with. That’s a perspective from an old soldier with a nephew serving in the Marine Corp and a son who has talked about enlisting in the Navy. The articles listed as the Code of Conduct are not just suggestions they are in fact military law and a U.S. soldier would be court marshalled for acting like those British sailors did. As far as I’m concerned it is simple cowardice in response to a clear act of war.

By: RB

RB — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:41:19 +0000

I feel sorry for this seaman but having been out of the U.S. Navy for about a year now, we had the code of conduct drilled into our head. Boot Camp, A School, and Overseas Anti-Terrorism training. I never got into the situation she is in but I’m sure there would have been some guns going off if I or my shipmates were in that situation.

By: djvc

djvc — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:45:11 +0000

Jim C,

Back to something i was touching on as well, they really don’t care what they are doing. They are giving the west the collective finger of the whole Middle East, and probably gaining possible ‘extremist’ support in doing so by showing the rest of the area that you can poke the beast in the eye, that there is still resistance, that there is hope that the way of life they lead will triumph over the intrusion of the Empire.