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Re: [TCLUG:13980] notebooks



reminds me.. a marine i know sent me powder teargas in the mail.. it was
quite an amusing letter.. if painful.

Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> >Do they really mustard-gas grunts? Do the soliders get gas-masks? What
> >does mustard gas do, exactly?
>         yep. friend of mine went through it. they put you in a concrete
> room, with gas masks on; fill the room with mustard gas, and then you take
> your mask off. 
>         the gas is an irritant. it makes the mucous membranes swell. so it's
> hard to breathe, your lungs burn, and you have 6'-long boogers coming out of
> your nose (no lie). supposedly, the trick is to breath shallowly, so you
> don't take as much of the gas into your lungs; the problem is, when the air
> is foul, you reflexively breathe deeply. :)
>         people completely panic. absolutely insanely panic. however, it
> generally won't kill you; in fact, the drill seargeants supposedly just
> waltz right through the stuff.
>         the object of the exercise is to teach you that you *can* survive
> it. however bad it is, you *can* survive. it also teaches you what *real*
> panic and *fear* is; without being too lethal.
> 
> builds character. it's good for you. :) 
> my dad went through it, and a friend of mine described in great detail what
> it's like.
> 
> Carl Soderstrom
> 
> 
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