(( F-K )) Marines Drink Snake Blood

 

 

 

Marines Drink Snake Blood

At a military base in the Thai province of Chonburi February 20 U.S. Marines with the Navy of Thailand started their studies on survival in the jungle. The event is held in joint military exercises «Cobra Gold 2013". In the 11-day exercise involving some 13,000 soldiers from the U.S. Army and its Asian allies in Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia.

The main objective of the exercise, code-named «Cobra Gold» - trained Marines methods of survival in harsh jungles of Southeast Asia. First, soldiers are taught the subtle movement in the jungle, exploration techniques, arrangement camp in the rainforest. In addition, Thai and American instructors showed soldiers - how to find food in the jungle. In particular, as used in food cobras and other snakes. For this purpose it is necessary to separate the cobra head, and then pour it into the blood in his mouth colleague. According to the instructors, the blood of snakes quite nutritious and can give the soldier a boost of energy for a few hours.

U.S. Marines also trained hunting birds and eating raw., Soldier taught pluck birds and eat their meat in the field without heat treatment and cutlery.
In addition to the rate of survival in the jungle, giving instructions to conduct combat operations in a nuclear war, chemical and biological attack.

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