We don't see enough pictures like this.

Ice_Cream_Kony · 5 months

That other soldier is so jelly.

XmarkstheNOLA · 5 months

Jarate!

cfang · 5 months

An Afghan man gave tea to a U.S. solider during a search operation for members of Taliban in the Nerkh district of the Wardak province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan

madplayshd · 5 months

A lot of people dont realize how hospitable most muslims are. Its actually quite possible that a man would die defending his guests. I guess in this society and geography its really important to help each other out.

JUMANJIIIII · 5 months

Afghan tea is the fucking BOMB btw

djxfactor306 · 5 months

So it's not just Bear Grylls.

sir_fish_slap · 5 months

All I see is someone rewarding a camper.

samahh · 5 months

Guess what: most Muslims hate the Taliban more than non-Muslim Americans do (or perhaps the rest of the non-Muslim world).

chriscarrcrash · 5 months

I always looked forward to a hot glass of chai while pulling security in a friendly village.

The locals refer to it as "chai", but it's pretty much just green tea. Also, they would add an ass ton of sugar. Sometimes they would give us a handful of rock candy with it, just in case your tolerance for sweet wasn't level: Afghan.

Sometimes I miss that country.

i_is_surf · 5 months

It's a staged photo. Because when you're proned out and taking cover, you wouldn't let that guy walk around out in the open and hand you chai. The photographer is also out in the open with his back to any threats.

Regardless of that, I wouldn't drink the chai if it was my first time through that village. As others have jokingly said - but it is a reality - that he could have poisoned it or made it with piss. At the very least, you're looking at very bad case of diarrhea because the Afghans aren't really known for having good sources of potable water.

I had a friend pick up a nasty intestinal parasite from the food there. Like nasty as in he spent 3 months in the hospital and during that time lost 35lbs.

So the risk of shitting your brains out in a hole 15 times a day while being forced to still conduct combat operations and not get killed, or end up on a medevac because of what you drank, is not worth it.

hmchammer · 5 months

Mmmmm....

MustafaMarx · 5 months

See how much the Afghans hate us. Stealing that soldiers tea.

NO Tea For You!!!

derexan · 5 months

As someone who who took over 300 photos as his squad's designated photopgrapher in Iraq, where many of the photos were sent to higher-ups for use in general distribution throughout the brigade in Iraq (actual pic is Afghanistan though) this is what I can say about these type of photos:

It's probably staged.

blackbright · 5 months

I think we see enough propaganda in our lifetimes to be honest.

chives90 · 5 months

looks a bit staged

carmenleee · 5 months

This gives me hope that one day we can all just get along. Go nice go!

JavaBucks · 5 months

Free jarate.

bross10 · 5 months

Nice try, US Government.

YetAnotherSmith · 5 months

Giving tea to someone is a sign off respect, with the highest honor for those who are given three cups of tea.

Howard_Beale · 5 months

You're a better man than I am Gunga Dinn.

CoachSnigduh · 5 months

We don't see enough pictures like this.

AllYoYens · 5 months

Propaganda? Maybe

Paulcom · 5 months

"Here enjoy this fresh cup of hot urine."

RustyRobot · 5 months

Brace yourselves. Jokes about 'drinking piss' are coming.

carloscanas2000 · 5 months

We realy do need to see more pics like this instead guys with rpgs and ak'74's and gore

Recall_Coordinator · 5 months

Imagine an american giving a cup of tea to a chineese soldier on american soil and all of this changes light.

tallandlanky · 5 months

I would like to think this actually has happened before. That being said part of me wonders if this was staged for a, "Hearts and Mindsesque" propaganda picture. Sigh. I hope it is real.

TheAznAssassinX · 5 months

The guy in the back: "Dude, where is mine?"

Bashed · 5 months

"Pause"

Canadiandynamite · 5 months

The Demoman and Sniper are enjoying a nice cup of jarate together.

F_A_F · 5 months

Initial reaction; "So THAT'S where snipers get their Jarate from!!!"

dcgi · 5 months

af_dust2, bloody campers

LetsGetFunky · 5 months

FIXED!

Snowyjoe · 5 months

I'm a sad person because this just looks like American propaganda

phuckyouropinion · 5 months

Sweet beanie

Shazamicide · 5 months

Yeah.. the kicker is that on occasion, the Afghan natives would brew their Chai with hash in it, using rock sugar as a sweetner. Dear god. I still got pictures of the results of that. I was my CO's RTO and was forced to sit with him and drink on occasion.. good times. Those people were amazingly hospitable and just as polite.

megaclown · 5 months

'Tea of the poppy', you call it? Why thank yeaauuuuuuhhhhhhhhhzzzzzzzzzzzzz

pear11 · 5 months

It's pictures like these that renew my hope in humanity. Maybe it's the hippie in me...I'm just saying.

terribru_mistake · 5 months

We need to see less of pictures of soldiers in Afghanistan or any country other than their own. Ideally less pictures of soldiers in general because killing people sucks.

darwyn4 · 5 months

Thanks for fucking up my country! Have some tea

Bazgul · 5 months

Meilmapala or hospitality at work. One of the biggest tenants of the Afghan honor code Pashtunwali. This happens a lot more than you realize. It just isn't captured on camera. The media only takes pictures of fighting, riots, and wars.

RealHippie · 5 months

Because that's a 1 in a billion rarity?

pedro3131 · 5 months

eh...

1) That pistol grip / bipod sucks 2) If he's really "pulling security" in an environment that contact is so likely as to merit proneing out, it's prob not time to sip some tea with the locals sitting ever so gingerly in an exposed position.

Nice PR picture though, not like any grunt's photo album from a deployment isn't filled with similar ones....

burrite · 5 months

Yeah, because that isn't really emblematic of the relationship between an occupied nation and its invader.

Nice propaganda, though!

Luke_Turnbull · 5 months

We all know the soldier was hoping for some diazepam, he's never gonna catch sniper wolf at this rate...

7zark77 · 5 months

Truth is, there probably used to be a lot more scenarios like this, but destroying villages with drones, raiding homes in the middle of the night to arrest 'Taliban' (based on intelligence from locals who have a grudge against their neighbour, who isn't Taliban) and a general weariness over the war means Afghans don't want to make tea for foreign troops anymore.

offconstantly · 5 months

It's unfortunate that the soldier would probably be weary of taking a sip like that.

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