Posted on 10/27/2011 7:01:53 PM PDT by opentalk
PC lunacy has no place on the battlefield.
(NCtimes) -As the war in Afghanistan enters its 11th year, thousands of Camp Pendleton troops are getting much more detailed training in Afghan cultural practices.
Years of lessons learned about roadside bombs also are being tapped to better prepare more than 7,000 base troops leaving for Afghanistan in about 12 weeks to spot the weapons responsible for most deaths and injuries.
“The training is a lot more thorough and mission-oriented now,” said Gunnery Sgt. Dan Tremore, who was helping to oversee training sessions last week for nearly 100 troops. “It’s extremely important in order to be able to operate successfully.”
Troops scheduled to deploy in early January include more than 800 members of a unit that, for the next year, will direct Marine Corps operations in the south-central Asian nation of 31 million people.
The relationships troops forge can mean the difference between a bloody deployment and a relatively safe one, said one of the trainers, Shafiq Mubarak, from the Marine Corps Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning. . .
Mubarak taught the troops the proper way to sit during a shura. He told them they should plan on at least 30 minutes for an initial meeting, and that they should always finish their tea and eat any food presented.
“If you don’t, that means to them that you don’t trust them, or think what they are giving you is poison or is unclean,” he said.
Mubarak also said the Marines should never spit or urinate to the west, the direction of Mecca that Muslims in Afghanistan face when they pray.
Muzzles pray in to space unless they r right at mecca. These guys can’t spit towards mecca if they wanted to for the same reason. Morons
yeah, that’s gonna work (rolling eyes into the back of my head)
Instead, make it a point to regularly spit or urinate toward the east, in the direction of the White House.
Pull out the troops and nuke the entire country from orbit—it’s the only way to be sure. Then on to Mecca.
Just spit 180 degrees away.
Thanks opentalk.
If you want all the grunts to spit towards Mecca, that’s the way to do it.
... In addition, when sharing a base with Afghan army troops, Marines shouldn't sleep with their feet pointed west, because that also is considered offensive, he said.
Happy to report that all three toilets in my home point towards Mecca. Hmm, guess that’s okay for the girls but not so much for the boys.
Is there an app for that? The compass that points toward mecca? If so I want it and not to make sure I don’t spit that way. I’d use it when camping too.
Cut a crescent moon into some port-john doors like a real hillbilly.
It’s amazing that Americans don’t know where THAT came from either.
Flush hard boys! It’s a long way to Mecca!
“..for a hundred years until they’ve all killed each other.”
Wouldn’t take that long.
Damn, enough is enough. Let’s just get the hell out of there, come back home, and take out the current protesters.
This isn’t “PC”, it’s advising them to submit to Sharia law.
I am getting there.
What the f—k are we doing in this POS place, bring all the troops home and drown these bastards to kindom come send in the B52S, carpet bomb until they are gone FOREVER, and get the hell out of this hell hole .
And when Muslims are in our country, attending our universities i.e. Catholic University, they shouldn’t sue the school because Catholic symbology in classrooms makes them “uncomfortable”.
Close relative going back for 3d’s on Saturday. Emailed him this crap info! I’ll tell him to spit to the east and that 25,00 miles later it’ll get there!
Exactly.
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