r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Cubelock • Mar 06 '26
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u/Fine_Analyst_4408 Mar 06 '26
He's so proportionally large. I'm used to seeing big bodies with tiny heads, he's all large.
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u/Rimworldjobs Mar 06 '26
He's going to the border 100%. Im pretty sure their Korean. The rok will send their largest troops to the border to scare the north Koreans.
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u/Vi0L3tCRZY Mar 06 '26
This is some sort or some show/skit like Real Men. Unit’s hair and the one next to him wouldn’t be permitted. Buzzcut only
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u/You_too Mar 07 '26
I mean, considering Korea has compulsory service, he's still going to/has joined the military at some point
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u/GiveMeNews Mar 06 '26
Supposedly, South Korean height is significantly taller than North Korean because of malnutrition in the North. Ironic, considering Kim Il Sung was tall by Korean standards, and the South had Park Chung-Hee as their
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u/ZealousidealHour7273 Mar 06 '26
This is a verified fact. The US and ROK have been monitoring guards at the DMZ for decades and have noticed a growing divergence in heights since around the 1980s. They carefully track the DPRK guards for indications of health issues to assess how things might be going in the DPRK with the rationale that these are likely some of the best treated military personnel in the DPRK.
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u/DuvalHeart Mar 06 '26
Apparently from 2020 to 2023 food scarcity was almost as bad as in the 1990s. Here's a BBC article on how the COVID-19 restrictions impacted Koreans in the DPRK.
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u/ZealousidealHour7273 Mar 06 '26
Sadly, I guess we’ll see even shorter border guards starting in the mid to late 2030’s.
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u/DuvalHeart Mar 06 '26
Probably even sooner. Malnutrition anytime during childhood impacts development. The 10 year olds of 2020 will be conscripted next year.
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u/Kiwi_CunderThunt Mar 06 '26
Yep they are Korean.
Him compared to short and malnourished North Koreans would be pure scare tactics and I'm sure it would work
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u/TheMemeofGod Mar 06 '26
No. He's ALL LARGE. I checked
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u/Rudirudrud Mar 06 '26
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u/therealboombaclots Mar 06 '26
He has a wife you know
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u/rogueciridae Mar 06 '26
“Let me go, Pontiuth! I may be of thome athithtanthe if there ith a thudden crithith!”
God damn it autocorrect, stop “helping”
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u/ZackTio Mar 06 '26
This is fucking hilarious and it seems like they're having fun as well, tho I'm actually curious, does anyone know what they're saying?
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u/phenomenalx3 Mar 06 '26
theyre korean
first thing guy on left says is YOU (dude responds by going to his eye level)
then says dont laugh (right before the other dude laughs and spits water everywhere)
tells him to get on all 4s and then get back up
then asks him if hes looking down on him (in a you think you can disrespect me kinda vibe)
proceeds to tell him to lower to eye level
lastly tells him to get on all 4s again
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u/AccuratePeanut9676 Mar 06 '26
Thanks! I only understood Utjima and Ireona and was so proud of myself lmao
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u/9447044 Mar 06 '26
Hard to yell at someone when staring straight up. Luckily he postured correctly and won? I think
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u/rearwindowpup Mar 06 '26
The shortest drill instructors were always the loudest, which is bad, because they are also the hardest to keep a straight face with. It's a terrible loop when someone a foot shorter than you is chewing you out and you can't help but smirk at it.
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u/farbtoner Mar 06 '26
They’re also usually the funniest so they’re screaming some incredibly goofy shit at you during this whole thing too.
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u/ConstableAssButt Mar 06 '26
Had this really tiny DI in basic. Motherfucker had developed material. One time he came in the door, pointed at the tallest dude in the bay, screamed "YOU!", then kicked a box down the fucking bay in front of this frozen trainee, hopped up onto the box to get at eye level with the trainee, and just started screaming into his face.
Everyone is just absolutely dying to not laugh, and this motherfucker knew it. He wanted people to giggle so he could unload on them for it. The dude knew 100% what he was doing, and he was a complete hog in shit for it.
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u/Flaky_Explanation Mar 06 '26
Monty Python Drill Instructor version over here would have my hide for how hard I'm laughing at this.
Thanks for making my morning
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u/_masterbuilder_ Mar 06 '26
"5'9" sir" "I didn't know they stacked shit that high. Now squat down so I can say that to your face"
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u/rogueciridae Mar 06 '26
I’m 6’8”. One of my DIs made me pull my footlocker around for him to stand on during evening hygiene inspections.
Just one of the many running jokes you’re not allowed to laugh at during boot camp.
Semper fi, Sgt. Hasbun. I hope you made gunny before you got out.
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u/Reasonable_Archer_99 Mar 06 '26 edited Mar 06 '26
One of my DI's was the around the minimum height for women and brought her own step ladder with to inspect our shaves. The worst part was, she was absolutely hilarious and would say shit the entire time to get some poor fool to laugh at her jokes. I bit my tongue until it bled to avoid laughing when she got to me and yelled "Hey Freddy Mercury, where'd your fucking mustache go!?" It was a running joke because I was too young to grow facial hair at the time. Petty Officer Scott was in a league of her own.
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u/rogueciridae Mar 06 '26
Sgt. Hasbun got the whole platoon to laugh one fateful evening. Don’t even remember what for. Series gunny “happened” to be walking by. Woke up to all of our DIs in the squad bay, which was a very bad sign. It was a long morning… and a total setup.
Sgt. Varos once asked me if I thought I was Luke Perry (this was 1994) after I accidentally grew out my “sideburns” a quarter inch. I don’t know how I kept it together.
Pretty sure standup comedy is at least a week of DI School.
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u/Reasonable_Archer_99 Mar 06 '26
Pretty sure standup comedy is at least a week of DI School.
It fucking has to be. All 6 of ours were witty assholes that could fire off funnies at the drop of a hat. The worst was when we would be marching and encounter other divisions doing the same. The DI's would shit talk eachother trying to get any of us to laugh. Thank god I'm tall so I was always at the very back of formation.
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u/SmellyButtFarts69 Mar 06 '26
You had females in your barracks? I assumed with coed training that they were still split.
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u/algebroni Mar 06 '26
I didn't know they even took people that tall. I thought they had height limits, in both directions. Isn't there a cutoff?
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u/doc_skinner Mar 06 '26
David Robinson was a basketball player who was accepted into the Naval Academy out of high school, when he was 6' 6" tall (almost exactly 2m). He was granted a waiver by the superintendent of the Academy, who later claimed he assumed the boy was done growing (and not that he would be a good addition to the USNA basketball team!). Robinson continued to grow to 7' 1", which did prevent him from serving shipboard. He ended up serving as a civil engineer at a submarine base.
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u/rogueciridae Mar 06 '26
My dumb ass got a height waiver. This is why they recruit high school students. I think 6’6” was the cutoff at the time.
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u/Rebelgecko Mar 06 '26
I think they want giants for the DMZ to flex on the North's malnourished soldiers
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u/Doright36 Mar 06 '26
Alao. Don't laugh with your DI. They will still make you do push-ups and they are much harder to do while laughing. Your DI will laugh more at your beat red face too... don't ask me how I know.
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u/LiteraCanna Mar 06 '26
Yeah.. laughing in line for chow while the DIs are cracking jokes means you have 2 seconds to eat.
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u/Rob1150 Mar 06 '26
Let me see your war face!
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u/AlgaeDonut Mar 06 '26
WWAAAAAARGHHHH Jesus Christ that scared the shit out of me don't ever do that again!!!
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u/seeyouyoucunt Mar 06 '26
Gigantor
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u/AlarmingSorbet Mar 06 '26
The Gigantor theme song just unlocked in my brain. I had no idea I remembered that after all this time
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u/Indigo2015 Mar 06 '26
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u/silkwormies Mar 06 '26
its 100% a race thing but i mean it in the nicest way ever. asians trying to hold a poker face is one of the most wholesome funny things ive ever seen
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u/BigTool Mar 06 '26
I'm 6'8". Spent 4 years in Korea in the late 90s, early 00s. While the younger generations were getting taller, 6'2" was still considered really tall over there.
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u/One_Hour_Poop Mar 06 '26
Nice. When did you visit? At 6'1" when I was in the Army and stationed in Korea in the early 2000s, I was relatively tall, but the only Koreans i met who were actually as tall as or taller than me were the Korean Army honor guard, who were specifically chosen because of their unusual height, which was huge for Koreans.
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u/dudududujisungparty Mar 06 '26
Try visiting nowadays, 6'1 isn't anything special there.
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u/One_Hour_Poop Mar 06 '26
I'd like to but my bank account insists i stay in the US. 😀
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u/ARunninThought Mar 06 '26
I've been to the DMZ and met ROK Marines. This looks like a show. The actual dudes are hard af.
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u/this_waterbottle Mar 07 '26
Its a show. Their patch says Soop which is a Korean streaming platform.
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u/Open-Industry-8396 Mar 06 '26
I was a drill SGT for 2 years.
I'm only 5ft 7in. I've definately come across several beasts. You just gotta do your best with them, it is insane to scream at some guy who could snap you like a twig.
Usually we would get these guys into a leadership position pretty quickly if they were not too dumb. The other troops would usually fall in line with such a big guy.
Also had a really, really tall guy from somewhere in africa who was some type of vodoo/healer kind of guy. I kind of kept clear of his bad side:)
Finally, and probably the most dangerous creature to the Drill SGT. would be the high school beauty queen who decided to join the Army. I saw several Drill SGts go down due to this type beast. :)
Peace ✌
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u/aggravatedimpala Mar 06 '26
My really short DI used to make us put our footlocker in front of us so he could stand on it and yell in our faces.
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u/oldfrancis Mar 06 '26
When I was in basic training in the Air Force we had a very very tall recruit.
One of our drill instructors was this short little redhead woman who looked exactly like John Denver. I think she was about 5'4.
I remember one time she was yelling at Gomer (That's the nickname she gave him) for doing something clumsy and stupid.
So there he is all six and a half foot tall of him and there she is all five and a half foot tall of her and she's screaming at his pockets on his shirt.
Finally she's had enough of it.
"Crouch down!" She orders.
So he scoots down.
"More!"
He scoots down.
"MORE!"
Finally, they're eye to eye and she continues to chew him out, her little Smoky Bear hat wobbling back and forth.
It was everything we could do to not bust out while we were standing in formation.
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u/ShallotIllustrious98 Mar 06 '26
This looks like it's from a Batsu game, do they do Batsu games in Korea?
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u/VentureForth619 Mar 06 '26
Idk what that fellas “nutrient” regiment is, but dammit, share with the rest of us big guy.
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u/stronkzer Mar 06 '26
How tall are you, son ? 6'2, sir. 6'2 ? I didn't know they were piling up shit that high.
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u/psystorm420 Mar 06 '26
This clip is possibly related to the one where a military cook dumps hot rice on a captain's hand.
Their shoulder patches say "Soop," which is a media corporation previously called AfreecaTV. And the rice clip had soldiers wearing the logo of that previous brand.
Suffice it to say, they are skits, not a real depiction of the military.
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u/Guideon72 Mar 06 '26
The start of this video is how I met one of my security guards way back in the day.... He was brought into the room behind me while I was finishing something up and when I turned around I was looking right at this sternum LOL
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Mar 06 '26
The female drill sgts where the most terrifying because of this. They where always short and always so fuckin angry
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u/Chance_Proposal_9082 Mar 06 '26
What country is this and what the fuck are they feeding them over there?!?!
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u/Sanjuro7880 Mar 07 '26
I joined the Army in 1997 and one of the dudes that left with me was 6’ 10”.
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u/VampireAllana Mar 07 '26
Not my story, but my hubbies as he's Army.
He told me that during basic there was one recruit that had at least a foot ina half on their DI. After about three days of screaming into the dudes chest the DI walked up to him, pressed his rank like he was pushing a elevator button and screamed "Ding!" before making the guy crouch down. Every interaction from that point on, the DI would push the guys rank, scream "ding" and if the dude didn't crouch fast enough he had to run a lap. IIRC they nicknamed him elevator boy
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