Posted: 12/21/2006 12:51:47 PM EDT
OK . . .   About 1,500 police officers and soldiers paraded on a soccer field, and other officers drove shiny new patrol cars and motorcycles around a dusty track ringing the field. At one point, a small group of elite Iraqi special forces officers wearing dark green T-shirts stepped forward with a live rabbit and ripped it apart with their teeth. The leader chomped out the animal’s heart with a yell, then passed around the blood-soaked carcass to his comrades, each of whom took a bite. The group also bit the heads off frogs. Elite Iraqi forces have demonstrated their toughness by chewing on live animals during military ceremonies since the time of Saddam Hussein’s rule. Iraqis eating live animals |
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Let's see them do that with a pig. I tripple dog dare them. J/K  No offence intended, just an observation that if one wants to demonstrate how tough they are, they need to do something for which they have some great fear. What greater fear is there than doing something which goes against fundamental beliefs Dave. |
...........now THAT'S funny!
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and my tax money is going to train these guys.. and make the world safe for democracy (but obviously not for rabbits and frogs).. next we'll be seeing vids of them rapping camels and donkeys. .. oh wait.. there already are vids of them raping donkeys.. time to leave and let them get down to chasing and eating each other.... |
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Killing a rabbit with your teeth? So fucking what? A buddy of mine did the exact same thing in training conducted by the US military. Now Pesh Merga... They are hardcore. I've seen video of them plunging skewers through their cheeks, through their tongues, etc. They're fucking whackjobs, but they're certifiably hard. |
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When I was in Okinawa (76-77) with the Marines we used to go up to the NTA (Northern Training Area) for survival/jungle training. One of the lectures was given buy a Marine everyone called Budda. It was hot and humid as hell up there and we were usually tired from night training so staying awake in class was a major problem. One day Budda got pissed at someone for nodding off and he walked off, disapearing behind the hut. He came back around the corner with a live chicken in his hands squalking and flapping like hell. Budda proceeded to bite the chickens head off and spit it out into the ranks. This causing no small amout of scrambling by sleep deprived Marines so as not to be hit in the face by a soon to be dead chicken head. Then he literally plunged his hand into the still flapping but no longer squalking chicken, pulled out his heart and proceeded to pop it in his mouth. He chewed it right up and swallowed leaving a little blood trickeling down his chin. He wiped that blood off with his sleave, threw what was left of the chicken across the room and then he went back to his lecture never saying a word about what happened. Woke me right the fuck up. Semper Fi and Merry Christmas to Budda where ever you are. Rocketman |
during the 70's my old man was a scholarshipped athlete living in the dorms with the others. the football players at that time had a penchant for doing the same with live squirrels they scooped up in the quad. I saw a squirrel almost bite an aluminum shafted arrow in two after an idiot aquaintance "pinned" one to the ground with his bow. the stories he has... |
Note the head is to the left. Looks more like he's eating it's ass |
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When I was a member of a MITT in 04 working out of Baghdad, the most important lesson I learned (and it took a few months for me to totally accept) was that trying to turn teh IA into little US troops was going to be a losing strategy. That the best thing I could do was to take the strengths that they had as a society and integrate those into the training and to use them to our benifit on operations. From the replies, it seems that there are alot of people here that have not learned the lesson either. Just because our society (both in the service and as a whole) does not think that biting the heads off live rabbits is something that is used to celebrate manliness, does not mean that we shoud detract or in and way attempt to downplay what they are doing. If these troops start strutting around thinking they are Billy Badass because they ate a live rabbit, then that is going to reflect while they are out on missions. If it were my guys that were doing this, then I would have been right in the middle picking out the biggest baddest rabbit I could and sucking it's eye balls out while it was still kickng. Good on them and I wish them good hunting. ETA-I spent 05/06 working with Pesh and while there were some good killers that were Shia/Sunni, I was really impressed with the Pesh and knew that if anything ever happened to me that there would be a circle of fire as everything around me with two legs that was not a friend would be dead. A good feeling. 
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THE F*CK IS THAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! |