How China gets its troops to stand to attention - pins in their collars and crosses on their backs..

[dray]

Pictured: How China gets its troops to stand to attention - pins in their collars and crosses on their backs

Stop slouching! Pins prod into the neck of this paramilitary policeman

To the point: This paramilitary policeman sticks his neck out

Attention! Crosses are fixed to the backs of People's Armed Police officers

Crosses to bear: Paramilitary officers are given extra help to keep their backs straight
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Pins to keep the head high!! I have never seen something like this! Very interesting, probably possible only in a communist or dictatorial country.

 

[C130]

i doubt they have to do this all the time. it's all mental.

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

Attention! Crosses are fixed to the backs of People's Armed Police officers

Crosses to bear: Paramilitary officers are given extra help to keep their backs straight
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Pins to keep the head high!! I have never seen something like this! Very interesting, probably possible only in a communist or dictatorial country.

Chinese soldiers with crosses , for a second I thought it was Taiping rebellion v2

 

[dray]

i doubt they have to do this all the time. it's all mental.

Maybe on special occasions. But it is still horrible to place a couple of pins on ones throat!

 

[JanjaWeed]

Pins in their collar is no secret...but crosses in their back is something I have heard for the first time. Man...kinda discipline & supreme physical condition one would need to sustain that kind of torture! Bravo...

 

[Gufi]

Part of postural training, nothing worse then what goes on in boot camps, maybe one needs to think of it as training of military which is never pleasant

 

[tranquilium]

i doubt they have to do this all the time. it's all mental.

It is for parade formation training. It is actually quite similar to march band training. Those super-organized looking formations you saw at Moscow took a lot of training.

The pin and cross are training tools to make sure you are stand at the right pose.

 

[dray]

Any other country follows such methods?

 

[empirefighter]

Nothing strange，we have different military culture with other countries and we have trained soliders like this for decades.