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The 24 Most Intense, Death-Defying Military Training Exercises from around the World

(Photo: Reuters/China Daily)

Would you jump through a ring of fire? If you’re a frontier soldier in the Chinese army, that’s a requirement. This Reuters photo from last year shows one soldier in the Heilongjiang province in the northeastern corner of China doing precisely that.

It’s one of 24 photos of elite soldiers around the world doing extraordinary things as part of their training. You can see more from Business Insider/Rocket News 24. They include US Marines drinking cobra blood, bare-chested South Korean soldiers covering themselves with snow, Filipino marines holding bananas on their heads, and German soldiers assembling guns underwater.


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Heilongjiang province is such a freezing place that this soldier probably begged for the opportunity to be near a fire. This is the province that hosts that big ice festival every year.
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I remember when i was a young child, probably 5 or 6, my mother told me to take our new babysitter to the park that was two blocks away. we ended up 15 miles away!
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Surely everyone knows that Real Men never ask anyone for directions?

BTW: The tendency to view every child-adult interaction as a precursor to paedophilia is a bizarre societal aberration. I'm glad I grew up in a time where the nice old man in the neighbourhood who gave us sweets wasn't a hate figure.
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It would never occur to me that anyone would ask a child who they didn't already know. And where did "randomly" come from?

My kids would tell you something just as confusing as Nisheisha, and assume they were making perfect sense.
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Really? Never suggest that an adult should randomly ask a child for directions. This is one of those Stranger Danger things children are taught in grade school; Adults ask Adults for directions, not children.
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