RE: [SG2] You'll never take me alive, coppers:Was RE: PA availability

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Los [mailto:los@cris.com]
> Sent: Saturday, September 26, 1998 12:33 PM
> To: FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: [SG2] You'll never take me alive, coppers:Was RE: PA
> availability
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> Alan E & Carmel J Brain wrote:
>
> > Dunno. Certainly amphetamines have been used (under medical
supervison)
> > before now. The main problem is how to administer enough to tide
through
> > the emergency, and yet not cause permanent damage to the system.
>
> When I was a young PFC in the 82d (this is late seventies), I was in
my
> battalion's scout platoon. We had jeeps with machineguns on them.
> After the
> intial paraachute assault we usually found ourselves involved in
> about 48 hours
> of virtually non stop operations. And we were given little black
> pills to keep us
> going. You had to be careful with them though as I saw them wreck a
few
> lieutennants, who never knew when te little black pills weren't
> gonna help you
> any longer....
>
> Los
>
Ah, yes. Black beauties. Once under the influence of these we were able
to
free climb up and down a sheer cliff face at night. Unfortunately when
daylight (and sanity) returned we were unable to repeat the feat with
light
and ropes.
This proves they also scrambled your smarts and made you pretty
fearless.
This why they may be good for short time use but may be expensive in the
amount of stupid things your otherwise well trained troops will do.

John Shoemark