SAS interrogator explains brutal training where you ‘get kidnapped’ and kept in 'dog cage’
Ian Dilks, who served in the Armed Forces for 24 years, prepared SAS troops for potential capture, but his own training involved getting "kidnapped"
An SAS interrogator has opened up about a brutal training ordeal that saw him being placed inside a "dog cage" and left outside to face the elements.
Ian Dilks, otherwise known as 'Dilksy', who served in the Armed Forces for 24 years, this month discussed his career and the arduous training to which he was subjected in an interview with LADbible TV.
He also trained SAS troops and prepared them for possible capture and interrogation, but it would appear that his own training proved to be just as intense and involved getting "kidnapped".
Ian said: "You do a bit of training. You do some techniques where you go in different rooms and you sort of do a little bit of practising as it were and then you basically get kidnapped."
He said the process involves being lulled into a "false sense of security" and explained what happened when he experienced it. Ian said he had a "night before" where he went out and had a drink, so he didn't return home until late.
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However, the next morning, Ian was subjected to "quite a hard PT session" before returning to a classroom for interviews with a "boss", something he described as similar to a mid-course interview.
It soon became apparent that something was off when he spotted "marks on the wall", which he said were "clearly boot marks". He proceeded to have a cup of tea with the OC and chatted about his new role.
But things quickly went south, as the door "burst open" and around four or five men wearing balaclavas came "racing in".
Ian said: "So I've tried to get up, so If I'm on a chair like this; they just smash me off the chair. So I've grabbed one of them.
"I've tried to punch one but I couldn't cuz they grabbed my arm, so I've bit one of them - especially with these teeth, I could kill someone."
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Ian said he felt a knee strike his head and realised they were trying to "plastic cuff" him, but his training kicked in and he desperately tried to escape.
The interrogator managed to move onto his knees, but he was swiftly kicked to the floor, given a bloody nose and then cuffed and carried out, hitting his head on "every door", before being thrown in the back of a Transit van.
Ian described how he would also be placed inside a "dog cage" and forced to build a "rapport" with the guards. If Ian politely asked for a drink of water, they would simply soak him with a hosepipe.
He elaborated on the brutal training, saying it's "to do with exposure", as they kept them outside in the cold in the dog cages.
He explained that the practice is a "dislocation of expectations" and highlighted that it's also a matter of control, as they're forced to endure a small "claustrophobic" area.
Ian said he thinks his mock interrogation lasted between 15 and 16 hours, but Special Forces may have to endure 36 hours, which he described as "awful".
