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10-05-2018, 08:32 #11
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Re: Combat High – A Brief But Sobering History of Drug Use in Wartime
Makes one wonder if it was really malaria pills the guys who did "border" duty were made to swallow regularly!
Tongue firmly in cheek.
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10-05-2018, 08:54 #12
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Re: Combat High – A Brief But Sobering History of Drug Use in Wartime
StanCT - the SWAPO/PLAN guys used the morphine from their medic packs when things got rough. We used to find the phials, actually small toothpaste-like tubes with integral needles similar to Sosegon, when we got close on a chase and they needed the extra vooma to keep going. We always knew that contact was getting close when we found them because as the effects wore of they would have had a big downer and would try an ambush.
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10-05-2018, 09:01 #13
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Re: Combat High – A Brief But Sobering History of Drug Use in Wartime
Ds, I never experienced use of dagga probably because of non-availability but had a few medics abusing the locally produced morphine derivative, Sosegon, which was in the section medic packs.
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10-05-2018, 09:05 #14
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Re: Combat High – A Brief But Sobering History of Drug Use in Wartime
To add something to the original history, it is well documented that the Paras (both Brit and US) were given big white pills (uppers) on WW2 D-Day to enable them to go keep going for the supposed 24 hour window that they had to survive before the ground troops caught up with them.
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10-05-2018, 09:35 #15
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10-05-2018, 11:03 #16
Re: Combat High – A Brief But Sobering History of Drug Use in Wartime
Recent studies show that 1 out of every 3 liberals are just as dumb as the other 2
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10-05-2018, 11:33 #17
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10-05-2018, 11:50 #20
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Re: Combat High – A Brief But Sobering History of Drug Use in Wartime
In our grouping of guys that did a stint in Owamboland there were three wellknown users of the green stuff. We never had any disciplinary issues with these guys and they were known for being able to perform near Herculean feats of physical labour after having a few puffs (digging latrine holes and so forth). We could never figure out how they got hold of the stuff untill we realised the one chap was getting boxes of tea in his regular parcels from home.
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