The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals declared victory this week after the practice of drinking the blood of cobras was axed from the multinational Cobra Gold ...

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has demanded the Marine Corps stop allowing a bunch of “giddy Marines” to cut off the heads of cobras and drink their blood during the annual Cobra ...

This year's Cobra Gold includes a cyber exercise, amphibious-assault training, a humanitarian-relief drill and a live-fire event. And yes, Marines were photographed drinking blood of a king cobra ...

expect Marines to continue putting their game faces on and opening up for a shot of snake blood. A monocled cobra flares its hood during jungle survival training, Exercise Cobra Gold 19 ...

See what's for dinner > It's all part of an annual exercise called "Cobra Gold," with over 13,000 military ... and eventually drink the blood — which can actually provide much needed hydration ...

One of the female Marines was photographed with snake blood splattered ... her best to look gung-ho for cobra juice. The unnerving exercise — known as “Cobra Gold 2013” — was done in ...

“It was oddly sweet — didn’t taste like blood,” one Marine said after ... The Thailand-based jungle exercise, known as Cobra Gold, runs every spring for about two weeks.

there is one of the most iconic aspects of the Cobra Gold jungle survival training, and that is drinking cobra blood. A King Cobra can grow to 13-feet-long and carries venom that attacks the ...

The soldiers were given the cobra blood as part of their jungle training in the largest American-led military exercises in Asia, called Cobra Gold. The troops were taught how to survive in extreme ...

The complaint also reads: During Cobra Gold, Marines in Thailand kill chickens ... vulnerable to extinction—in order to drink their blood as part of what the Marine Corps promotes, in some ...

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SATTAHIP: US and Thai marines slurped snake blood and ate scorpions in a jungle survival programme on Monday as part of the annual Cobra Gold war games. Now in its 37th year, Cobra Gold is one of ...