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Indonesian Special Forces Woo Mattis With Snakes, Blood-drinking


JAKARTA — Pentagon chief Jim Mattis would like to boost U.S. cooperation with Indonesia’s military. Now he has a better idea of what they can do.

Indonesian special forces put on an elaborate counterterrorism demonstration for the visiting U.S. defense secretary in Jakarta Wednesday – although that’s an understatement.

There were shirtless strong men with war-painted faces breaking stacks of flaming bricks with their heads. Teams of commandos beheading snakes with their mouths and drinking their blood. And a trio of German Shepherd dogs descending from helicopters to defeat a hostage-wielding "terrorist" while the theme from "Mission Impossible" played in the background.

Mattis, who observed the 20-minute demonstration alongside a senior Indonesian military official at the country’s armed forces headquarters, appeared to enjoy the show.

"Me and the snakes," Mattis joked afterwards with reporters. "When you watch a force do that many small things perfectly, you can imagine that they can also put the bigger issues together."

"Even the dogs coming out of the helicopters knew what to do," he added, laughing.


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Originally posted by walkinghorse:
Somewhere in the past I read about Green Berets reffered to as snake eaters!