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Armies have always said that doing drill for you is good. But it’s not. Apart from the whole tedious marching-around-and-stamping-like-petulant-children aspect of it, it can also cause big, butch soldiers to grow breasts. Yeah. Soldiers with boobies.
75 per cent of the soldiers from Germany’s Wachbataillon, kind of Germany’s answer to our Guards battalions, have been developing significant moobs. The condition is known as one-sided gynecomastia, which has stimulated growth in the soldiers’ glands. This is most likely a result of the soldiers hitting their bang sticks against their chest too hard when they’re doing drill. According to Professor Bjorn Krapohl:
‘”They need to change the way they drill. The constant slamming of the rifles against the left hand side of the chest is clearly a significant factor.”
Well, it’s either that, or the pride and joy are getting in touch with their feminine side. Your call. [Metro]
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In before “I’d like to hit my bang stick against her chest too hard”
And by her, I mean that lovely German girl in the photo
That’s not a german girl, it’s not hairy enough.
Drill is good, it’s the foundation of all team work and discipline in the Army. It’s also quite funny on ice. Don’t knock it until you try it.
Believe me, I’m woefully familiar with it. Never tried it on ice though….
There’s nothing funnier than a left or right turn on the march done on an iced over drill square, apart from doing the same with rifles.
Remembrance Sunday this year, Westminster Abbey after the rain in Ammo boots (with hobnail boots) in greatcoats. Very scary.
I liked drill, even won a couple of ground training competitions…
Our drill didn’t involve chest slapping though.
“tedious marching-around-and-stamping-like-petulant-children”… well I enjoy it.
I used to enjoy drill too. Nothing tedious about it.
So it’s not moobs they’re growing, but ‘moob’ singular? So now we can tell a german soldier from his lopsided boobage?
Also drill is awesome, but only after you stop doing it