The guy in the middle is doing the Iggy Shuffle ferpetesake.

Anybody who believes this is even remotely legit is an idiot who probably believes heat doesn’t make steel pliable.

Come. On.

Maybe it’s a prank.

Tony737 on November 1, 2007 at 10:51 PM

No kidding.

Ditto, on the last one. Sat here last night thinking “Can I still do that?” and didn’t want to find out.

BTW, I’d hate to think what my own jumping jacks would look like these days.

I hope you know it’s just good natured fun poking.

As I said in another comment: poking fun is ok, as a lot of humor comes from goofing on our allies, who many find “endearing” when they encounter new things and do them in a particularly goofy fashion. I think a lot of it is funny myself.

My ire is related to AP saying the nutroots are ragging on these guys, as in the IA are a joke and so are our efforts to train them.

Again, this is ANA (or cops, I’m not sure), not IA, but the same rule applies. That may be their first day, and you CAN train basic things like that to a certain extent. But you might take video at their 10th day and find something to laugh at. They don’t train exactly as easily as Americans. But they’ll shoot and go into battle.

And to see a few second clip of some goofy local national new recruits that have never done PT before and make some sweeping judgments on whether they can fight the bad guys is just silly.

This Video is a lot better Allah, check it out.

Interesting. I wonder if Iraqi doctors use the same philosophy. Iraqi surgeons? Iraqi engineers?

MB4

LOL God I sure hope not!

I never had nearly that much fun at Ft Dix.

MB4

No crap. If you horsed around like that, everyone would have to do extra for punishment. 100 – 4 count, anyone messes up, the count starts over! And some dumb @$$ always does that extra one at the end. $%*&er! But then again, looking back, things like that I laugh about now.

El Guapo on November 1, 2007 at 11:10 PM

Interesting. I wonder if Iraqi doctors use the same philosophy. Iraqi surgeons? Iraqi engineers?

Let me see how they shoot…..
Bob Owens

A lot of these guys, ESPECIALLY the terrorists, still use the “spray and pay” tactic. “Whatever the bullet hits, it is Allah’s will.” (Thus, the very high civilian casualty rate in urban fighting, plus they hide in the crowds) A very hard habbit/custom/ideology/theology to get them to break and to train them to rely on their own skills and not Allahs will. I really did not mean for that to rhyme. It is almost like asking them to stop trusting in Allah.

I hope you know it’s just good natured fun poking.

BadgerHawk on November 1, 2007 at 11:04 PM

I never had nearly that much fun at Ft Dix.

Why is it a big deal if recruits on the other side of the world dont know how to do jumping jacks? Maybe they dont do jumping jacks in Iraq. If you had never seen anyone do them before, and youd never done them before, dont you think it might take a little bit to get the hang of it?

So someone please explain to me how this means they are ‘raw’. If this was Americans, then yes, but my point is we are assuming they are like us, i.e. that they grew up doing jumping jacks, when they are very different.

kaltes on November 1, 2007 at 9:37 PM

Too true. This proves my point that liberals think the entire world is just like their neighborhood and the worse that the world gets is like the bad part of town.

- The Cat

I don’t think it is a prank. A couple of the guys are doing OK.

ThackerAgency on November 1, 2007 at 11:00 PM

Maybe they are the screw-ups.

BillINDC on November 1, 2007 at 9:47 PM

I hope you know it’s just good natured fun poking.

How long ago?

Allahpundi

Judging by the what looks like DCU pants the PT leader on the left is wearing (you only get a brief glimps), unless this is the AF training these guys you can date this video to – before the Army switched to their ACUs (late 2005?). And on the 19 second mark you can see most of a couple mountain in the back ground, so this is probably either in northern Iraq, or Afghanistan. I’d bet Afghanistan by looking at thier uniforms.

Kuwaitis were wearing a pattern very similar to our Marine’s new desert uniform (with their own markings and ranks of course) when I was there at the beginning of my tour this past April. I’d say this was in Afghanistan.

Maybe it’s a prank.

Tony737 on November 1, 2007 at 10:51 PM

You may have just won a cigar!

MB4 on November 1, 2007 at 10:55 PM

I don’t think it is a prank. A couple of the guys are doing OK. A couple of guys on the left are doing them very coordinated and one is even in time with the instructors. It could be a first day thing. Sort of a ‘before and after’ deal.

Maybe it’s their first day.

And that’s possible. I understand that these are the guys ON OUR SIDE. I appreciate and respect that. I understand that they risk their lives to join our guys. I appreciate that they bring things to the table that our guys need (like local knowledge).

I’m just saying that they need to be teachable too if we are to work together with them effectively enough.

Maybe it’s a prank.

Tony737 on November 1, 2007 at 10:51 PM

You may have just won a cigar!

Deriding them as less than men because they can’t do jumping jacks like US Marines is shameful. Real ethnocentric meanspiritedness, the type of thing the left is supposed to abhor, as ostensible “liberals.”

BillINDC on November 1, 2007 at 9:47 PM

Can’t do jumping jacks like US Marines?
They can’t do jumping jacks like first day inductees at Fort Dix F’ing New Jersey! Cub Scouts do better jumping jacks.

I don’t think they are being degraded as “less than men”. I find them to be quite endearing. If any of the networks ever hire me to do a comedy show I will hire them and pay them very good money and make them celebraties.