Comments on: Armies Hopped Up on Drugs

By: asdf

asdf — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:27:53 +0000

tried em all… take Dexedrine now “go pills”.. eat em cut up.. no need for a powder though..

had these all my life for being hyper…

it makes me real Gung-Ho at work!!!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:01:23 +0000

#30, lol.

#26, I instantly thought of Jacob’s ladder, too. Weird movie.

By: I Smoke PCP`

I Smoke PCP` — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:21:09 +0000

Has anyone here heard that PCP can be good for you? Recent scientific studies have shown that PCP can actually lessen the effects of numrous afflictions such as cancer, AIDS, and diseases caused by PCP use.

Wait… Never mind.

By: Doc

Doc — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:05:04 +0000

Oh, almost forgot. Re: original topic.

THe CIA and US Army tested LSD on “volunteers” as a CBW. That’s where Ken Kesey, author of “One Flew Over the Cucoo’s Nest”, first encountered it (read “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”)

Also, thousands of US servicemen were exposed to hard radiation when they”observed” open-air nuclear tests.

Also, I seem to recall reading somewhere on the Web and in other, more reliable sources, that somebody was trying to develop an aerosal drug that would make soldiers gay. Pretty amusing – I can just see spraying that over the SF Castro District on a Saturday night when all the frat guys and lookie-loos are checking out the leather scene…

By: Doc

Doc — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:58:26 +0000

Dusty,

When we were off-duty we’d smoke those nasty Vietnamese cigarettes too (but no smoking when on patrol), and on-duty or off we’d mostly eat local food (that of it that we could choke down) because what you eat is how you smell. Japanese say Yanks smell like rotten milk because of all the cheese in our diet, and that Koreans smell of garlic – in fact, the Japanese pejorative for Koreans translates “garlic eaters”.

Your dad was a Ranger? Me too – C CO, 75th. Tell him I said Hi!

Actually, I was originally asigned as a LRRP with the 7th Air Cav, then transferred to the 75th after I returned to the States. Taught cartography at Fort Benning until my enlistment was up.

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:50:03 +0000

Please, people! Let’s everyone of you go on Oprah and conduct a mass cry-in.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:28:05 +0000

This post has inspired me to go rent “Jacob’s Ladder”.

By: mrs.djs

mrs.djs — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:06:10 +0000

The adults using war-enhancing drugs is one thing.
That adults use children on war-enhancing drugs is despicable and disgusting. So, so sad.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:40:17 +0000

The Gaesatae were Gallic warriors who fought the Romans hopped up on pain killing chemicals. They were also naked.

By: Dusty

Dusty — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:24:40 +0000

I too have heard the story of the .45 gun. However, my history professor (a very interesting man) said part of the reason was that the warriors would also tie their testicles and penises up cutting off circulation. This intense pain would put them in a different state of consciounsness and make them more impervious to pain. Sort of like how accident victims in states of shock can tolerate (to an extent) their chest being cracked open.

Doc,

My Dad’s Ranger CO in SEA wouldn’t let them smoke American cigs because he thought the enemy could smell them. I asked my Dad what he did as he was a three pack a day smoker then (probably more concerned with bullets than lung cancer), he said he just smoked Vietnamese cigs.