New Filipino Marine Recruits Balance Bananas On Their Heads At Lunchtime

I’ve often heard people say that you have to be a little bit bananas to join the marines but I’m pretty sure (yet not adamant) this is not quite what they meant.

This image is of some newly recruited Filipino female marines having lunch with their male counterparts inside the marine headquarters in the town of Ternate, South Manila. The marines eat their entire meal whilst balancing a banana on their heads.

Reports suggest that there is an estimated 350 female marines in the 10,000-strong Filipino marines and they have to go through the same hardcore physical and mental training as the men! Female marines have been permitted to perform many of the same duties as men since 2006.