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    Default 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!

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    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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    Default 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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    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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    Default Re: Combat High – A Brief But Sobering History of Drug Use in Wartime

    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Wells View Post
    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.
    That is very interesting. I find these types of stories fascinating, thanks for sharing.

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    Default Re: Combat High – A Brief But Sobering History of Drug Use in Wartime

    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Wells View Post
    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.
    Chris Cocks in his book "Fireforce" tells of use morphine use and subsequent addiction during the Rhodesian war.

    Alcohol was also seriously abused.
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    Default Re: Combat High – A Brief But Sobering History of Drug Use in Wartime

    Quote Originally Posted by camouflage762 View Post
    Chris Cocks in his book "Fireforce" tells of use morphine use and subsequent addiction during the Rhodesian war.
    I've read the book. It was fortunate that he had the mental fortitude to get out of that cycle.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Wells View Post
    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.
    On a lighter note, the chaps from Natal were considered users of dagga by default.
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    Default Re: Combat High – A Brief But Sobering History of Drug Use in Wartime

    Quote Originally Posted by KK20 View Post
    On a lighter note, the chaps from Natal were considered users of dagga by default.

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    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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