Elite Military Training Regimes

Elite Military Training Regimes

There's being in the army and then there's being in an elite unit in the army. The training for both are completely different.

 These are images from elite training regimes from around the world.

 Most of it seems to be for show.

U.S. military handout image shows a soldier and dog jumping out of helicopter during a training exercise Ho New/Reuters

Belarussian soldier from the Interior Ministry's special unit displays his skills at his base near the village of Volovshchina Vasily Fedosenko/REUTERS

South Korean and U.S. Marines participate in a winter military drill in Pyeongchang Lee Jae Won/REUTERS

A U.S. Marine drinks the blood of a cobra during a jungle survival exercise at a military base in Chon Buri province Damir Sagolj/REUTERS

A paramilitary policeman crawls under fire obstacles during drill at military base in Chaohu, Anhui province China Daily/REUTERS

Shiite volunteers, who have joined the Iraqi army to fight ISIL, demonstrate their skills during graduation ceremony in Najaf Alaa Al-Marjani/REUTERS

Soldiers shout as they practise in temperatures of about minus 30 degrees centigrade in Heihe China Daily/REUTERS

A member of the South Korean Special Warfare Forces takes his position in frozen waters during a winter exercise in Pyeongchang Kim Hong-Ji/REUTERS

Shi'ite fighters, who have joined the Iraqi army to fight against militants of the Islamic State, take part in field training in the desert in Najaf STRINGER Iraq/REUTERS

Fighters of the Kurdish People's Protection Units are seen hanging behind a fire loop at a military training camp in Ras al-Ain Stringer/REUTERS

A Canadian soldier, deployed in Latvia as part of NATO's Operation Atlantic Resolve, attends an ice plunge training during a joint military exercise in Adazi Ints Kalnins/REUTERS

Masked Palestinian militants from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of the Fatah movement, take part in an anti-Israel military drill in Rafah Suhaib Salem/REUTERS

Paramilitary policemen react as they take part in a combat skills training session at a military base in Chaohu China Daily/REUTERS

An Israeli soldier from the Golani Brigade holds a comrade's hand as he helps him during a 70-kilometre (43-mile) march in northern Israel Baz Ratner/REUTERS

Paramilitary policemen jump during a training session in muddy water at a military base in Chuzhou China Daily/REUTERS

Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers are carried by a rope from a CH-47 JA Cargo Helicopter during an annual training session near Mount Fuji at Higashifuji training field in Gotemba Yuya Shino/REUTERS

- PHOTO TAKEN 06JAN05 - A United States Marine Corps drill instructor yells at a recruit during earl.. Shannon Stapleton/

Servicemen of a special unit from the Interior Ministry take part in a test near the village of Volovshchina Vasily Fedosenko/REUTERS

A trainee leopard crawls along a 50 metre-long path of jagged coral and rocks as part of the Taiwan Marine Corps frogmen "Road to Heaven" test in Zuoying Nicky Loh/REUTERS

Paramilitary police snipers raise their heads from basins of water during a practice session of holding their breaths underwater at an annual drill in Nanjing China Daily/REUTERS