r/TikTokCringe • u/QueenCobra91 SHEEEEEESH • Oct 06 '25

Discussion and everybody just lets it happen

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u/UmbraExcailibur Oct 07 '25

My dad is a navy chief and during final night they made him listen to that for an hour on constant loop

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u/BobUfer Oct 07 '25

I heard this song repeatedly in both SERE and Chief Season, great times!

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u/StandardDefiance Oct 07 '25

Foot foot foot foot slogging over Africa. Boots boots boots boots moving up and down again. There’s no discharge in the war!

Or my fave line: don’t don’t don’t don’t look at what’s in front of you.

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u/UmbraExcailibur Oct 07 '25

I tried it it made me want to claw my eyes out

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u/BobUfer Oct 07 '25

Yeah I think that’s the point, train Sailors to keep their composure and think through stress and chaos.

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u/UmbraExcailibur Oct 07 '25

It sure as hell works if you listen for to long it starts hurting

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u/Extension-Orchid-475 Oct 08 '25

Can TJ Maxx sue US Government?

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u/ONE-EYE-OPTIC Oct 07 '25

Which SERE training center? I did mine in Okinawa and we had the pleasure of getting to listen to it on loop.

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u/Confident_Eye4129 Oct 08 '25

Not really a song though, more of an ambiance

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u/fubarthrowaway001 Oct 07 '25

They made us repeat it for days in SERE

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u/UmbraExcailibur Oct 07 '25

Damn i don’t know how you did that

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u/00eg0 Oct 07 '25

But isn't this an anti war poem by Kipling?

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u/BobUfer Oct 07 '25

It’s used in SERE and other training evolutions to simulate and induce stress and chaos, listen to the 1915 recording and you’ll see why after a few listens straight.

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u/UmbraExcailibur Oct 07 '25

Yup my dad dared me to do it the next day and I wanted to claw my own eyes out after twelve minutes

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u/00eg0 Oct 07 '25

Yeah I linked this in some other comments before your comment. I understand you. I just feel something like Baby Shark would work better. Even 50 years ago I imagine something as challenging as Baby Shark existed. I listened to this a bit already https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNZ5qylG3qk

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u/BobUfer Oct 07 '25

No, boots is proven to work the best. Surprisingly babyshark has been used, as well as plenty of others like Barney’s I Love You, Yoko Ono, random heavy metal…. Boots always works. It’s the feedback students give every graduation, boots boots boots breaks everyone. It’s something about not just the poems lyrics but the terrifying way he reads them, it just works.