Road to Paradise

Exam, entitled "Road to Paradise" included exercises and overcoming crawling 50-meter strip strewn with sharp rocks and coral fragments.
Exam, entitled "The Road to Paradise", passed at the end of intensive amphibious training military divers Marines Taiwan, which lasted nine weeks.




In the photo: students gathered prior to the test.



Cadets during the warm-up before the start of the exam "Road to Paradise", which took place on January 19 in Tszoin, Kaoshiung in Taiwan.



50-meter "Road to Paradise" is strewn with sharp rocks and coral fragments.



Among other things, the cadets were required to crawl all of 50 meters on his stomach with his hands behind his back.



Such an examination is held annually in southern Taiwan in late January or early February.



This latter test, after which the cadets will be able to become full members of the Marine Corps Navy Taiwan.



Marines Navy Taiwan was established in September 1947 and originally consisted of 66 and 99 divisions, separate tank regiment and a regiment of logistics services. In 1996, during the military command structure reform Marine has undergone significant changes. It is composed of a brigade MP guard naval base and cover, as well as individual and amphibious armored Reconnaissance and Sabotage Battalion. Photo: Cadet cries while passing distance over sharp stones "The way to paradise."



Foreign military experts note the high level of combat training of Taiwanese marines. Photo: At the end of the test Cadet hugging his mother.



The only girl who underwent a course of this year, 18-year-old Huang Chien-I.



Currently, the main efforts of the Taipei administration in the military sphere focused on creating small in number and combat composition optimally balance of high combat capabilities and well-trained armed forces. With priority in their construction given to the development of naval and air forces. Photo: Huang Chien-I poured water on the "Road to Heaven".



Cadet performs somersaults backwards on the sharp rocks.



The best of the best can get into a special unit of combat swimmers Taiwan "Sea Dragon". The selection is very hard there: during the last set of the 3000 contenders chevrons received only 80 lucky ones.



An elite unit of the Taiwanese army "Sea Dragon" has been serving the island of Kinmen - the main border outpost in Taiwan.