The comments were awesomely ironic:

The problem is with the US Marine Corp's, they all think they are John Wayne and believe what they see in films is the real thing.

All shaven heads, chanting and ranting with little idea about real warfare. Thank heavens for the British military.

I lol'd, by George.

You would be hard pressed to find an animal rights activist who gave a crap about scorpions being eaten,,,I would imagine.

doglover: All delicious. I might be a vocal animal lover, but I don't deny nature is all about eat and be eaten. I'm no veggie and that's a fact.

Where do you stand on mute animals?

doglover: All delicious. I might be a vocal animal lover, but I don't deny nature is all about eat and be eaten. I'm no veggie and that's a fact.


Completely off topic.....but

What in the fark are you wearing??

God forbid the US military members try to learn about other cultures where they are stationed. We wouldn't want other countries to think that while their customs are different than ours we respect them.

Poppyale: Completely off topic.....but

What in the fark are you wearing??

How many shrimp, goldfish, and crabs died to make that... whatever it is?!

Drinking Cobra blood? G.I. Joke is more extreme than I remember them being

Ashtrey: Poppyale: Completely off topic.....but

What in the fark are you wearing??

How many shrimp, goldfish, and crabs died to make that... whatever it is?!



It looks like a zebra caught in Dante's Inferno.

/ sounds like Ms. Sara Nelson needs to be bent over a fence

I once had an employee who served in the 82nd Airborne during Desert Storm. He said during training he was taken to Panama and given only survival items and told to navigate through the jungle to another location. During that hike, he ate whatever he could find; snakes, bugs, beetles, worms, whatever.

The worst thing he found was when he had to get water from a stream. Just upstream from where he was, a half-rotted carcass of a monkey was in the water. He used a few extra purification pills that time, he said.

/I know, cool story

Poppyale: It looks like a zebra caught in Dante's Inferno.

One way or another, it looks more comfortable than the chain mail. I'm too cold-natured for that.

I took part in Cobra Gold in 98. USMC 2311, stationed out of Camp Schwab on Okinawa at the time.

/Free since '00

//"Pattaya Bay, Thailand. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious."

Don't ever dare a survival school graduate to eat anything you can see moving around.

They will do it.

Slugs, spiders, snakes, scorpions, rats, anything. They'll thump it, then muck it on down.

On Thanksgiving they enjoy the traditional frizorpion.

Bendal:

He said during training he was taken to Panama and given only survival items and told to navigate through the jungle to another location.



/ JOTC closed in 1999

dittybopper:
Where do you stand on mute animals?

On their heads is usually the quickest and most humane way.

Just upstream from where he was, a half-rotted carcass of a monkey was in the water. He used a few extra purification pills that time, he said.

Why not just go a a bit upstream - before the monkey?

I say good for them. Its nice to see our military engaging in and participating with other cultures, rather than looking down their noses at these practices like im sure many arm chair animal rights folks here in the states will want to do.

Are scorpion stings hallucinogenic?

/Not even going to speculate about cobra blood.

Chilly Willie: Why not just go a a bit upstream - before the monkey?

Because that's where the rotting boar was. What do you think killed the monkey?

Poppyale: doglover: All delicious. I might be a vocal animal lover, but I don't deny nature is all about eat and be eaten. I'm no veggie and that's a fact.


Completely off topic.....but

What in the fark are you wearing??

*unzips pants* Yes, please tell us all...

Unfortunately, the next squad was taught by this guy:

Chilly Willie: Just upstream from where he was, a half-rotted carcass of a monkey was in the water. He used a few extra purification pills that time, he said.

Why not just go a a bit upstream - before the monkey?

You realize that the 82nd Airborne is technically army, right? Should tell you everything ;)

Chilly Willie: Why not just go a a bit upstream - before the monkey?

You know, as band names go Before the Monkey isn't half bad.

Chilly Willie: Just upstream from where he was, a half-rotted carcass of a monkey was in the water. He used a few extra purification pills that time, he said.

Why not just go a a bit upstream - before the monkey?

Obviously that was a zombie monkey up stream and he didn't want to risk attracting its attention and possibly the attention of other zombie monkeys in the area.

Chilly Willie: Just upstream from where he was, a half-rotted carcass of a monkey was in the water. He used a few extra purification pills that time, he said.

Why not just go a a bit upstream - before the monkey?

I think he said he noticed the monkey post-drinking of the water but before he filled his canteen.

He'd also win drinks at bars betting other enlisted personnel he could eat a grasshopper without throwing up. He said the little green ones were best, kind of crunchy, but the big greyish ones were juicy and tasted nasty.

/really fun guy to talk to
//was a TOW gunner in Desert Storm
///didn't get to fire it but once
////at a munitions bunker

Ah, Cobra Gold.... I missed out on Cobra Gold when I was in Okinawa, but I heard good(insane) things. As for eating that sort of stuff, well you'll eat anything when you're hungry. In SERE we ate what we found too. Good times.

/Cool story, bro
//Mareen Corpse Soldier
///Sgt USMC '03-'08

And they wear rattlesnake skins for neckties. Who do they love?

plausdeny: Don't ever dare a survival school graduate to eat anything you can see moving around.

They will do it.

Slugs, spiders, snakes, scorpions, rats, anything. They'll thump it, then muck it on down.

Dittyboppers are the same way, except with alcohol.

/Not me, of course.
//Not anymore.

radioman_: And they wear rattlesnake skins for neckties. Who do they love?

Arlene.

Heck I ate grubs, grasshoppers, ants, crickets, and a lizard and all i did was wilderness survival merit badge in boy scouts years ago.

Animal Rights weenies are too funny.... critters like those are eaten in Asian countries often (if not a daily basis).

A pilot and B/N in our squadron went down over Panama (also jungle terrain)...survival training was pretty important.

And someone above made a good point, it is good for our troops to learn about our allies techniques, customs, and knowledge of the territory.

Not everything in the world comes packaged in plastic and cans, ready to eat.


Activist goobers shut up, and let the Marines train.

2wolves: No one has mentioned the rabbit you get at winter school? Along with altitude sickness, freezing your ass off, fire making 101.

Minus the altitude sickness, sounds like a typical childhood in the Adirondacks.

cduke23: Ah, Cobra Gold.... I missed out on Cobra Gold when I was in Okinawa, but I heard good(insane) things. As for eating that sort of stuff, well you'll eat anything when you're hungry. In SERE we ate what we found too. Good times.

/Cool story, bro
//Mareen Corpse Soldier
///Sgt USMC '03-'08

We used to look forward to Cobra Gold, but most especially Team Spirit, when the wives of all those 25th ID soldiers became single for a while.

/US Army '85-'89

However, their stomach-churning antics are likely to enrage animal rights campaigners.

Just the writer's take,nothing in the article about any animal rights group actually saying anything about it.

/That training will make for some awesome bar bets too.

That Marine recruiter just about had me convinced, but this changes everything.

I did the Thailand thing when I was deployed to Japan. Definitely a good time!

catchpenny: //"Pattaya Bay, Thailand. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious."

Indeed, CG FTW! Pattaya is an amazingly debaucherous, trashy, fun little tourist trap.

You mean outside the lower 48 things are different and possibly unpleasant? Well color me surprised.

/No matter where you live, life is hard, deny that fact and you'll end up on the bottom.
//No one got any where in this life by taking the easy route.
///Jungle survival is something I will probably never need but I'd take the training because you never know.

dittybopper: We used to look forward to Cobra Gold, but most especially Team Spirit, when the wives of all those 25th ID soldiers became single for a while.

It is truly a miracle of love when a soldier comes home from a 12-month deployment to see his 2-month old baby for the first time.

/Jody gets around.