![]() 04/19/2020 at 00:09 • Filed to: social distancing | ![]() | ![]() |
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If you can read this from 100 meters, the USMC wants you — Sniper Corps now recruiting!!
![]() 04/19/2020 at 00:13 |
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“Damn, I can’t read that sign all the way back here. It looks important, though. Better get closer, don’t want to break any rules.”
![]() 04/19/2020 at 00:16 |
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I found that on a USMC Reddit, and one commenter said that it didn’t matter since most Iraqis were illiterate.
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Ah my old job
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I found that on a USMC Reddit.
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I think I saw the same sign at the grocery store today. It was a pretty rough neighborhood...
![]() 04/19/2020 at 01:40 |
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From unesco. The older generations are quite low but the rest of the population is pretty literate. I think that commenter might just be a bit racist.
http://uis.unesco.org/en/country/iq#slideoutmenu
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That is entirely possible, considering the source.
![]() 04/19/2020 at 02:10 |
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Maybe Afghanistan? There was a documentary 5or 6 years ago following g a training of afghan soldiers and one of the challenges at the time 3/4 were illiterate. I think it was a drill Sargent saying they have to recreate grades 1-4. Orders can’t be posted, duty assignments, supply lists, manuals, all are twice as difficult as you then have to have the guy who can read repeat it.
![]() 04/19/2020 at 02:11 |
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Lol. My colleague at work wrote on the back of her hi-vis vest, ‘keep back two meters’.
‘ I asked gas meters, water meters or electricity meters?’, 'if water meters, how big is your water meter?', as in the rest of the world a it’s spelled metre in measurement and meter in a measuring device. Her son, who also works with us, just shook his head and said, ‘oh mum’ and walked away.
![]() 04/19/2020 at 07:15 |
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Another complication for Afghanistan is there are quite a few d ifferent languages.
04/19/2020 at 08:05 |
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![]() 04/19/2020 at 12:23 |
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Can’t be true. This is way too considerate of other people’s units of measure. In America we tell everyone 100 yards, or the length of a football field. Just so everyone is clear and on the same page.
![]() 04/19/2020 at 13:11 |
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I used to have this magnet on my fridge. My housemate put it on there after returning from Iraq.