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Meet the Hunter Troop: Norway's tough-as-nails female soldiers
bbc.com ^ | 3/31/2017 | Kevin Ponniah

Posted on 04/01/2017 5:56:35 AM PDT by rktman

She's marched for miles carrying gear that weighs as much as she does, killed animals for food during survival training and practised jumping out of planes to get behind enemy lines.

But Jannike, a pony-tailed 19-year-old from northern Norway, will only concede that she's "pretty tough".

She is part of the Hunter Troop, the world's first all-female special forces training programme.

"I wanted to do something bigger, the toughest the army could offer me," Jannike says. "I wanted to [see] how far I could push myself."

After six months, despite some "really low moments", she is determined to get through the course.

Next up on the training schedule is close-combat fighting and offensive driving.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: ladywarriors; viqueens
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Ragnar would be proud. ;-)
1 posted on 04/01/2017 5:56:35 AM PDT by rktman
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2 posted on 04/01/2017 5:59:04 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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They’ll need it to counter their self-imposed Islamic invasion.


3 posted on 04/01/2017 5:59:54 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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Since the men apparently have no testicles, this is a good thing.


4 posted on 04/01/2017 6:00:00 AM PDT by ZULU (DUMP THAT POS PAUL RYAN!! HE KILLED OBAMACARE REPEAL AND WILL KILL TAX REFORM!!)
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"Next up on the training schedule is close-combat fighting and offensive driving."

and parallel parking.

5 posted on 04/01/2017 6:00:00 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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The women have to take up where the Euro-weenie girly-men fall short.


6 posted on 04/01/2017 6:00:05 AM PDT by IronJack
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“My men have become women, and my women have become men!” — Darius The Great


7 posted on 04/01/2017 6:02:06 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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Sorry: that was Xerxes, not Darius.


8 posted on 04/01/2017 6:03:12 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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The crux of the issue is the last bit:

“Jannike speaks calmly but with conviction. She says that in a peaceful country like Norway, it’s difficult for her to keep in mind during training that they are actually “learning to kill”.

“But I try to have that perspective, because that’s what we’re really training for.””

Mind set. You can’t “try to have” that perspective. If it’s “difficult” to keep that in mind, you’re dead.


9 posted on 04/01/2017 6:03:36 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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Yeah, where’s Matt Helm when you REALLY need him?


10 posted on 04/01/2017 6:04:29 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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11 posted on 04/01/2017 6:05:56 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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A little prominent on the brow ridges for my preference.


12 posted on 04/01/2017 6:09:14 AM PDT by Stentor
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Well, they’d last about 5 minutes in a real firefight.


13 posted on 04/01/2017 6:15:20 AM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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That’s why I made the “mind set” comment. If you have to keep reminding yourself, you’re as good as dead. Hesitancy costs lives.


14 posted on 04/01/2017 6:19:47 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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My BS detector was set off a bit simply because those chicky troops were so good looking.

Anyway the article mentions working in “conservative societies” well since the idiot scum who naturally rise to the top in a democracy hell bent on finding the unicorns of equality are importing the “conservative societies” I suspect the chicky troops won’t have to go very far to be deployed in the future.


15 posted on 04/01/2017 6:22:14 AM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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LOL!


16 posted on 04/01/2017 6:28:59 AM PDT by Right Brother
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Don’t tangle with her during her periods.


17 posted on 04/01/2017 6:30:19 AM PDT by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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Don’t tangle with her during her periods.


18 posted on 04/01/2017 6:31:07 AM PDT by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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No doubt they will distract and occupy the attention of the enemy for a while. In close combat, they would be about as effective as America’s new found women Rangers, begging to be recycled for one more chance to get it right like they so often were in training.


19 posted on 04/01/2017 6:33:07 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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Brow ridges are a sign of good Nordic/Neanderthal stock. i.e. European....the people who built rockets to the moon.


20 posted on 04/01/2017 6:35:45 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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