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US military to stop shooting live animals to train medics for the battlefield
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2025
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Jfc TIL the US military used animals as shooting dummys 😰
What? No. They used animals for medic training. The animals are completely out and feel no pain, it's for medics to learn on live flesh and blood injuries. Simulators are just as good now, so it's surprising they still did this in some trainings but this wasn't a "the military just blasted live animals as shooting practice"
It's says it in the first sentence of the article ...
Correct, for medics. They sedate the animals and then shoot them. They wouldn't be able to do anything medic wise on an animal that's been shot. Especially a pig. They're going to be insanely hard to catch. I don't know where you're getting that they just shoot them for target practice.
I just audibly chuckled at the thought of some freshly-recruited chud desperately chasing after a wounded squealing pig in an attempt to try and save it before it bleeds out.
You are right that it would (hopefully) never happen that way, but that's like a scene out of a Coen brothers movie or some shit. Fuck, I'm going to hell aren't I
I've got rescue pigs and if they want to do something, you're not stopping them. Even our little pot belly pigs are insanely strong. There is no forcing them to do something. You have to make them want to do whatever you want them to do.
O and they're fast as hell too. No fucking way you're patching up a shot pig that's awake.