China is seriously messed up

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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8407780/chinese-soldiers-play-with-explosives

The Chinese government has released footage of soldiers playing explosive pass-the-parcel during a training exercise in Hong Kong.

The video of the deadly drill shows the six men counting down as they hand a smoking package to each other before the last one throws the satchel in a hole and they all dive for cover.

The resulting explosions send a blast of earth several meters high.

The exhibition drill was held last month when Hong Kong's chief executive Sir Donald Tsang inspected the troops, but footage has only just been released and shown on Chinese Central Television (CCTV), British newspaper the Telegraph reports.

The People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers were also shown carrying heavy logs, leaping through rings of fire and riding motorcycles at high speed.

The PLA said the "near impossible" tasks were designed to improve "psychological strength" and to forge "fighting spirit".

There are 6,000 PLA troops based an elite garrison in San Wai, a district of Hong Kong that borders the mainland.
 
While those activities are pretty dumb and needlessly risk the soldier's lives, i don't see it as being that much different from other near-death exercises that other countries put their trainees. It's just that other countries... you know, have a reason for endangering their lives, not just playing hot potato with bombs.

And my god, steven tyler sounded terrible!
 
Well, I think every country has near death stunts, they just aren't normally government ordered - unless soldiers are in active combat zones :rolleyes:

There are live fire training exercises etc. Don't really see how this merits a "seriously messed up." That is more of a eating orphans or mass genocide kind of thing.
 
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There are live fire training exercises etc. Don't really see how this merits a "seriously messed up." That is more of a eating orphans or mass genocide kind of thing.
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I only would resort to eating orphans once I ran out of puppies. :scared:

Now thats messed up.
 
Not flaming logs, mind you.

And I'm pretty sure grenade training isn't played out as a game of catch.
 
Yea I'm not sure how this would increase physical strength. It just seems like a great way for someone to throw the satchel too hard and have someone fumble it resulting in a bunch of dead PLA soldiers. Seriously, we've got these guys playing hot potato with explosives, I saw a video of a group of middle eastern soldiers hammering knives into another soldiers noggin. What are they trying to prove?
 
Might just have to try this game of extreme hot potato myself someday. Maybe with firecrackers or something.

On a somewhat more serious note, it just looks like a good way of passing the time really. :D Maybe this trains them to catch an explosive from enemies and transfer it to allies to throw down into a nearby hole?
 
They do stuff like this in the US as well. They have the grenade test where a solider will have to throw a live grenade over a wall. Many people throw the grenade and it hits the wall and bounces back at them. The instructor has to jump on them to push them to the ground and pray it doesn't blow them up.

I got this info from these guys. There is also a Chinese fail of it. Explicit language, warning.
 
Well its the age old issue of whether you want to have safe training which doesn't make them fear for their lives which means they might not be prepared for real warfare, or crazy edge of your pants stuff which in the long term might make them better soliders.
 

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