- It is quite refreshing to work with someone who not only comes to me with the information I need to help him, but also thanks me for doing it.
- Note to self: I am not allowed to call meeting minutes and agendas “Whiny Bitch Bingo”.
- I take it as a sign of frustration when I hear the words “Screw it. Go get the explosives.” through a locked door.
- Machine guns be loud.
- So are grenade simulators.
- Tell me if I’m wrong here, but I can’t be the only veteran who looks at a cloud of yellow-gray smoke and doesn’t immediately think of CS gas.
Thoughts on the Day
Posted by daddybear71 on October 10, 2014
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John in Philly
/ October 10, 2014When your Reserve Unit is going through the gas house, do NOT use a Navy Mark V mask born before you were, it was an unpleasant experience.
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Old NFO
/ October 10, 2014Oh thanks for that memory… Now my eyes are itching.
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daddybear71
/ October 10, 2014I know what you mean. On a side note, I’ve been coughing up technicolor crap all night from the myriad smoke grenades I got to take breaths from last night. The things I do for my hobbies.
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Bob
/ October 10, 2014Hey DB,
You ain’t the only one…..I do have a gas story for you….back in the day, 1987 at cooke barracks in Germany..well I was walking near the what was optimistically called a PX…When all of a sudden I got the watery eyes, and phlegm and other symptoms of a gas attack. Well I saw soldiers around me and myself quickly hold our breath and run for the barracks to get mask and MOPP up for an attack. We all suited up and started heading to the motor pool for roll out…well half of the post did….the downwind part apparently from 4/16 infantry. We found out after we were heading to the motorpool that the infantry guys dropped a bunch of CS crystals they were moving around and everybody downwind got the “benefits”. For a few minutes it was nerve wracking, we figured that 8th Guards were finally coming down the Gap. It is a funny story now…but back then…not so much.
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daddybear71
/ October 10, 2014I can understand that. Pucker factor gets pretty high when you know people have WMD pointed at you and all of a sudden it hurts to breathe.
My personal CS story is that we were on a field problem and got gas grenades thrown at us. I tried to show how tough I was by just putting on my mask and then going back to whatever I was doing. Somebody kicked the grenade over to me as it was spewing, and the heat it was giving off when it hit my leg made me move. When we got the all clear, I noticed that the plastic stock on my rifle had a bubbly patch on it. My thought was that the heat from the gas canister had melted it. When we were cleaning rifles later that day, I got out a chamber brush and scrubbed at it to get the loose plastic off. Turns out it wasn’t loose plastic, but rather it was CS that had condensed on the stock as it came out of the canister. My first scrub at it sent a puff of it directly up into my face. That’s right, I CS’ed myself from close range. Didn’t feel right all night, and nobody wanted to be anywhere near me because I stunk of the stuff, no matter how much water I poured over my head and into my eyes.
Never said I was bright.
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Geodkyt
/ October 10, 2014Heh. I Drill Sergeant School, I went through the gas chamber three times in one day. Just, “because”.
Well, and I had a touch of a cold. Fixed that right straight. . . (It’s really not so bad the second and third times. Leaves a warm glow, like strong liquor.. . well, it does ten or fifteen minutes after the hacking, wheezing, and leaking a liter of goo a minute through eyes, nose, and mouth subsides. . . 😉 )
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