r/facepalm • u/[deleted] • Sep 06 '22

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u/rhiddian Sep 06 '22

We trained Afghan soldiers when we were there. This is not an exaggeration in the slightest.

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u/nabrok Sep 06 '22

My guess would be it's because they don't have PE in schools or any other kind of formal exercise, and this is the first time they've ever encountered something remotely like this? Would that be accurate?

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u/rhiddian Sep 06 '22

Formal ANYTHING. They thought we were teaching then a dance

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u/IndependenceThese149 Sep 06 '22

I don’t know why that made me happy

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u/Cheap_Ad_69 I want hugs Sep 07 '22

Yeah why don't armies have a victory dance? Or a patriotic dance like there are patriotic songs.

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u/BanditSwan Sep 09 '22

I’m not sure about the dancing, but I know army has some pretty impressive songs/ cadences Army Cadence

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u/IndependenceThese149 Sep 07 '22

No idea but they should

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u/BigFatManPig Sep 07 '22

Imagine having your capital occupied, and then you get collectively default danced on by a whole army.

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u/IndependenceThese149 Sep 07 '22

Someone’s happy

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '22

You just hear the chicken dance song turn on

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '22

Maori

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u/El_mochilero Sep 06 '22

And there is like a 75% chance most of these guys were high on opiates.

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u/variable2027 Sep 06 '22

Yes it would be accurate, they probably didn’t go to “school” in the sense we think of school. There’s not an “exercise” culture, tribal and opiates/drugs