The stated purpose is to treat a gunshot wound by sticking it inside. Apparently it's what they learnt to do in Chechnya.
Just to steel-man the position, I have heard of US soldiers I know who did the same thing in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Of course, the difference there being that the US soldiers who did it were doing it as an entirely homebrew solution, and not on the official orders of the military.
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I know about that. Elsewhere they're being told to bring their own women pads or to ask their gf to give them some.
The stated purpose is to treat a gunshot wound by sticking it inside. Apparently it's what they learnt to do in Chechnya.
Just to steel-man the position, I have heard of US soldiers I know who did the same thing in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Of course, the difference there being that the US soldiers who did it were doing it as an entirely homebrew solution, and not on the official orders of the military.