Marines drink cobra blood and eat scorpions & tarantulas for jungle survival training

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Posted: 3/2/2020 11:19:24 AM EDT

More pictures at link

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8063555/US-Marines-war-games-exercise-teaches-survive-Thai-jungle.html

Posted: 3/2/2020 11:21:56 AM EDT

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Well yeah.

Posted: 3/2/2020 11:30:59 AM EDT

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Whole Meal of Nope....

Betting I'd starve

Posted: 3/2/2020 11:31:40 AM EDT

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Operation Cobra Gold. Good times. Thailand was awesome.

Posted: 3/2/2020 11:35:31 AM EDT

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Whole Meal of Nope....

Betting I'd starve

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Uh you've obviously never been hungry enough. If you get hungry enough. You will eat anything. I tell my neighbor's with dogs to take good care of my emergency food supply.

I remember going into RANGER SCHOOL I weighted 180 lbs. When I graduated I weighted 134 lbs trust me do not ever say never.

Posted: 3/2/2020 11:35:34 AM EDT

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They look like they're having a great time

Posted: 3/2/2020 11:38:36 AM EDT

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to live off the land, to eat things that would make a billy goat puke.

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That's some real rambo shit!

Posted: 3/2/2020 11:41:57 AM EDT

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Did you ever wonder why he said the same thing while staring straight at you?

Posted: 3/2/2020 11:43:15 AM EDT

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As one of the worlds pickiest eaters. I fucking flunk out of survival school...

Posted: 3/2/2020 11:44:29 AM EDT

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Uh you've obviously never been hungry enough. If you get hungry enough. You will eat anything. I tell my neighbor's with dogs to take good care of my emergency food supply.

I remember going into RANGER SCHOOL I weighted 180 lbs. When I graduated I weighted 134 lbs trust me do not ever say never.

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Whole Meal of Nope....

Betting I'd starve

Uh you've obviously never been hungry enough. If you get hungry enough. You will eat anything. I tell my neighbor's with dogs to take good care of my emergency food supply.

I remember going into RANGER SCHOOL I weighted 180 lbs. When I graduated I weighted 134 lbs trust me do not ever say never.

My Vietnam POW friend once schooled me on the proper way to eat a cockroach.

Pull it’s wings off before eating so they won’t get stuck to the roof of your mouth.

Posted: 3/2/2020 11:51:05 AM EDT

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The Tokay Lizard (fuck you lizard)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2c23-1rVQs

Tokay geckos like in the photo are pretty entertaining.

Posted: 3/2/2020 11:51:49 AM EDT

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My Vietnam POW friend once schooled me on the proper way to eat a cockroach.
Pull it’s wings off before eating so they won’t get stuck to the roof of your mouth.

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I remember reading an article years ago, about some American guy who did time in this shithole Asian prison.
A big part of the prisoners diets there were cockroaches. They cultivated the damn things.

When the guy saw this for the first time, he said, "No way. That's repulsive. I can't eat those."
The other prisoners told him, "Yeah, we get that a lot from you Westerners. That's why you guys usually die."
He ate the roaches.

Posted: 3/2/2020 11:56:31 AM EDT

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We used billy goat bladders as canteens in the Army

Posted: 3/2/2020 11:56:43 AM EDT

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Every year we get these stories like it is something new.

Cobra Gold has only been happening since 1982.

I can't wait until someone discovers it next year...

Posted: 3/2/2020 12:06:16 PM EDT

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We did an overnight jungle survival in the PI in 83 with a Filipino guide.

Dude caught a little bat by knowing it was in a bamboo, used a net over its hole and scared him out.

That night he roasted it over the fire on a stick, whole. It was about the size of a mouse.

He offered it to us Marines and naturally, one dude took it, pulled it off the stick with his teeth and chewed that rascal up and swallowed it.

I think even the guide almost puked.

I had a pocket full of Snickers.

Posted: 3/2/2020 12:09:05 PM EDT

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Great.

Get ready for an outbreak of Crayola Virus.

Posted: 3/2/2020 12:13:14 PM EDT

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Ah, so you were THAT guy. Magic lightening of pack, too, I suppose?

Geckos have a slightly bitter taste; chameleons do not and are preferred, although geography will determine dining. (I suppose either would be good if slightly cooked.)

Posted: 3/2/2020 12:16:15 PM EDT

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Posted: 3/2/2020 12:40:19 PM EDT

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Isn't this how the Corona Virus started?

Posted: 3/2/2020 1:24:51 PM EDT

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fify

Posted: 3/2/2020 1:51:27 PM EDT

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The only thing in the suck I didn't volunteer for was jungle survival school. I regret that decision.

Posted: 3/2/2020 4:03:16 PM EDT

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My Vietnam POW friend once schooled me on the proper way to eat a cockroach.

Pull it’s wings off before eating so they won’t get stuck to the roof of your mouth.

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We use to collect bunches of insects. Put them in a ammo can of boiling water. After a bit we'd scoop out the floating parts. Add salt and pepper and drink it. Protein broth lol

Ammo cans with rubber seal removed from lid. Makes great pressure cookers.

Posted: 3/2/2020 4:05:29 PM EDT

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I tell my neighbor's with dogs to take good care of my emergency food supply.

Did you ever wonder why he said the same thing while staring straight at you?

I wonder if knew I meant him also

We were at field 6 at Eglin training for a mission. While we were there we all chipped in and bought out the gator pub there.

One of the guys in batt had not been to RANGER SCHOOL yet. Long story short he got the RI to show him the first site we assault in Florida phase. RI was drunk with the rest of us.

This ranger got a rubber bag and filled it with all kinds of small can food ect...and buried it at the 1st objective at RS.

He went there a few months later and on the night they attacked that site in Florida he dug up that food.
But man it would have sucked to have gotten caught and kicked out during the final phase.