Sean Brown
Rare images capture jungle survival training that U.S Marines attend in Thailand as a part of a combined exercise.
Some 13,000 members of militaries from all across the world attend and do everything from eat random bugs, to drinking cobra blood, to biting the head off of a chicken in order to toughen up and learn how to survive in the wild.
The 11 day exercise called Cobra Gold 2014 takes place in Thailand’s Chon Buri province and covers amphibious assault, humanitarian relief, and extraction of friendly forces as well as the jungle survival.
After the exercise was over the Marines were invited to take part in some of the local traditions such as drinking snakes blood, and eating the tail of the cobra and as you would expect they happily engaged.
[A U.S. Marine prepares to eat a scorpion]
[Marines choose various bugs to eat out of a bamboo shoot]
[A Thai Navy instructor passes on his knowledge about how to effectively capture and kill the King Cobra]
[A Thai Navy instructor shows the soldiers how to trap the cobra to kill it]
[A Marine with the tail of a cobra in his mouth prior to eating it]
[A Marine bites the head off of a chicken]
[Marines tilt their heads back to drink the blood of a dead snake]
Eating bug’s , drinking cobra blood biting heads of chickens , check .