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50 Foot Ant posted:The idea that some of those are still sitting out there, ignored and forgotten, makes me wonder if someday some Urbex guys are going to stumble onto the jackpot. The U.S. ones aren't ignored and forgotten, we still pay I don't know how many millions a year to maintain an entire MEB's worth of Marine prepo equipment in caves in Norway.
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iyaayas01 posted:The U.S. ones aren't ignored and forgotten, we still pay I don't know how many millions a year to maintain an entire MEB's worth of Marine prepo equipment in caves in Norway. I'm just happy I'm not the guy whose job it is to roll all those vehicles half a revolution forwards and back every now and then. The mountains are swiss-cheesed with these things, the Norwegian army had gear for the 300.000 strong mobilization reserve tucked away in various holes.
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atomicthumbs posted:Please tell me the secret is boring so it will stop driving me nuts. Almost certainly. The "boring poo poo:awesome" ratio is like a billion to one.
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The Flipperbaby posted:Tank Sobel 
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What a dumbass. And what if it WAS coke or heroin or something? Congrats buddy now you're gonna pop hot too.
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What exactly happens when you put CS powder in your mouth?
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TCD posted:What exactly happens when you put CS powder in your mouth? 
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Sep 23, 2013 07:34
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I tried to get someone I know to post in this thread with some of his stories, but he said yours blow his out of the water, 50 Foot Ant 
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-Troika- posted:I tried to get someone I know to post in this thread with some of his stories, but he said yours blow his out of the water, 50 Foot Ant 
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Can I ask why anyone would want to put CS powder in gelcaps? Pranks?
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Troubadour posted:Can I ask why anyone would want to put CS powder in gelcaps? Pranks? It's a convenient dosage unit for gas chamber training - just toss them on a hotplate.  50FA: You're in a semi-trailer, sweating in the dark when all of a sudden- Troubador: Is this the training now? 50FA: Yes. You're in a semi-trailer, sweating in the dark when all of a sudden you look down- Troubador: But how come I'd be there? 50FA: Maybe you've hosed up, maybe you wanted to go to college, who knows? You look down and you see a CS capsule, Troubador, it's billowing thick smoke up at you- Troubador: CS capsule, what's that? 50FA: Know what tear gas is? Troubador: Of course. 50FA: Same thing. Troubador: I've never seen a CS capsule. (pause) But I understand what you mean. Troubador: Do you make up these training exercises, 50FA, or do they plan them for you? 50FA: The CS flows over your face, your eyes burning in the hot darkness. Through the slobber and snot you want to don and clear but you can't, not without giving your name, rank and social, but you're not even trying to take that breath, Troubador. Troubador: What do you mean I'm not trying? 50FA: I mean, you're not trying. Why is that Troubador? (pause) It’s just training, Troubador. In answer to your query, it's planned for me. It's training, designed to provide pictures of you with strings of snot down to your knees.. (pause) Shall we continue? Describe in single words, only the good things that come in to your mind about : the Army. Troubador: The Army? 50FA: Yeah. Troubador: Let me tell you about the Army... joat mon fucked around with this message at 15:25 on Sep 24, 2013 |
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joat mon posted:It's a convenient dosage unit for gas chamber training - just toss them on a hotplate. Hahahahaha.
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I feel like 50FA's stories are like reading Catch-22 but in the Cold War.
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There needs to be a book made from the stories of humpermonkey and 50FA.
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Cojawfee posted:There needs to be a book made from the stories of humpermonkey and 50FA. A modern day "Green Side Out"
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Stultus Maximus posted:A modern day "Green Side Out" "This side to your company commander."
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Geniepolice posted:I feel like 50FA's stories are like reading Catch-22 but in the Cold War. I would read the hell out of that.
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Booblord Zagats posted:Then I look at this rear end in a top hat's name tape and a smile breaks out across my face that must have looked like that smile the Grinch got before he robbed those hippy goddam Who's blind. His name is Custer. He is in fact, General Custer. Holy poo poo, I had dinner with that guy several times. He's kind of a family friend.
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50FA is basically the next IDR
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krispykremessuck posted:50FA is basically the next IDR Doesn't matter if the stories are true or not, they're entertaining and effort is put into them. IDR got lazy and essentially said "I'm MARSOC, suck me off" then called it a day.
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Doesn't matter if the stories are true or not, they're entertaining and effort is put into them. IDR got lazy and essentially said "I'm MARSOC, suck me off" then called it a day. Even back when 50FA was doing the DnD stories in TG I didn't give a single poo poo about the verifiability of his tales. Stories aint ment to be true, just good.
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yeah I really couldn't give a gently caress less if the stories are true or not 50FA is cool
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KirbyKhan posted:Even back when 50FA was doing the DnD stories in TG I didn't give a single poo poo about the verifiability of his tales. Stories aint ment to be true, just good. Anyone challenging the stories just doesn't understand the concept of "sea stories" (or whatever the Army calls them).
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friend of the family DEATH TURBO posted:yeah I really couldn't give a gently caress less if the stories are true or not 50FA is cool
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50 Foot Ant posted:My head starts swimming, my vision blurs, and I start getting chemical exposure symptoms. I yell out gas and grab for my mask right before I hit the ground and pass out. Nobody made it very far. Did you guys have the pen at that time? I could only imagine panic stabbing myself as I tried to put on the mask. I had a buddy of mine get stabbed by his atropine injector in the rear end. We were brand new in Afghanistan, got into a HMMWV, and I guess his mask bag went in at a weird angle, and the pen was in the mask bag, so he jumps out, thinking a scorpion or someshit got him. He's yelling, smacking his rear end and seat with his cover; then he starts getting super jittery, and has to lay the gently caress down in the rocks, right there in the parking area for the duty truck. After pulling the mask bag off and having him show us where he was "bit", we saw the big gently caress-off needle sticking out of the bag. Medics took over pretty fast after that, pushing us outta the way. Good news was we didn't have to wear those stupid loving masks anymore and shortly thereafter we just threw them all in a connex before going to our different FOBs.
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Geniepolice posted:I feel like 50FA's stories are like reading Catch-22 but in the Cold War. This was my exact thought and I loving love Catch-22.
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Since it may very well be an idiot thing- when we went over for Desert Nam 2 they gave us the normal atropine/2pam chloride injector sets along with a third single injector that the NBC guy called the suicide stick. His guidance was that if we are still getting the effects after all three sets, that last single injector will check us out quickly and painlessly. Does anybody know what the gently caress it could have been? Anyone besides us 82nd retards get it? (If I have already asked somewhere else, I apologize for repeating) Extra Idiot story: When I deployed in 06, we had daily mayor's cell/SGM detail. I get stuck on it and the SGM takes me out on the gator to the west side berm...where there is a half moat. Seriously. He explained that local were drilling a well, hit the water and called it a day. He later had it expanded to a half moat on the side that is the least likely enemy approach. He stands there, like Alexander the great, hands on his hips and says, "Now we are secure. Nobody gets past a moat. You've been here a while, what do you think Specialist?" "Honestly Sergeant Major?" "Yeah, honest. You are the Infantryman." "That is the stupidest thing I have ever seen. Moats went out of favor because they can be defeated with a ladder, Sergeant Major." He later made me clean the garbage out of the moat with a loving rake. My contribution to the Surge was cleaning a half rear end attempt at a moat with a rake.
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bulletsponge13 posted:Since it may very well be an idiot thing- when we went over for Desert Nam 2 they gave us the normal atropine/2pam chloride injector sets along with a third single injector that the NBC guy called the suicide stick. His guidance was that if we are still getting the effects after all three sets, that last single injector will check us out quickly and painlessly. Does anybody know what the gently caress it could have been? Anyone besides us 82nd retards get it? I recall them going over a 3rd needle in BCT (2005) that was a last resort if you were maxed on atropine. I want to say it was adrenaline, but it also might have been a tranq. Either case, it wasn't meant to kill you. Or at least they didn't say it was to kill you. 
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P.S. STILL COMPLETELY DEVOID OF MERIT
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I remember being told in one training or another that it's diazepam (AKA valium). It doesn't do poo poo for NBC exposure, but will keep the guy from flopping around as much.
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Sorta. The idea is that it'll relax the spasming muscles enough to keep your bones from snapping under the stress and diaphragm from suffocating you, among other things. Less useful for assisted suicide. Brief idiot story: I once had a medic working with me who, when someone got busted in the face during combatives, stopped the match and ran out to them with nothing but a tourniquet for their body nose. Not exactly sure what he planned on doing with it, or how he managed to get a CMB. Or how he made E5, come to think of it. Dude was pretty dumb all around. Suntan Boy fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Sep 26, 2013 |
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The Flipperbaby posted:Holy poo poo, I had dinner with that guy several times. He's kind of a family friend. If he's still in tell him to learn his own MP's jurisdiction
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Wild T posted:I remember being told in one training or another that it's diazepam (AKA valium). It doesn't do poo poo for NBC exposure, but will keep the guy from flopping around as much. We were told that it was a combination drug with atropine, 2pam and diazepam.
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I did CBRN school in 06 and we trained for 3 atropine and 3 2PamCl. They mentioned we would also get diazepam if things got real but only to calm us. We did not get told how much we might get though. Class was kind of a joke.
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Mercury Ballistic posted:I did CBRN school in 06 and we trained for 3 atropine and 3 2PamCl. They mentioned we would also get diazepam if things got real but only to calm us. We did not get told how much we might get though. Class was kind of a joke. Diazepam is not super dangerous. Wikipedia says someone jacked 2 grams of it and walked away 48 hours later. I would imagine that it would make your last few minutes of pants making GBS threads terror and agony in a chemical attack a lot more bearable to you and the people around you. I would rather someone just shoot me though.
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I forgot about this one. When the Russians invaded Georgia back in 2008 I was in Iraq. I was watching CNN in the TOC with a MSG as they started showing BMPs rolling across the border. MSG was elated. Woohoo! Finally, we're not the only ones willing to go after these cave dwelling terrorist fucks. I hope they kill every last one of those bastards.Aside from being a predominantly Christian country, Georgia was part of that whole coalition of the willing deal and a close American ally. There were Georgians on our FOB until the poor bastards got flown out to go fight the Russians or whatever. I don't think he ever grasped that. NCOs lead the way!
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