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

Los wrote:
> 
> 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....

Chemical Augmentation is too useful not to use: But putting them in the
hands of Lts with no training in their use (and dangers) is criminally
negligent and stupid.

Even super doses of caffeine, which is what I suspect those little black
pills were. Call them 30 cups of strong black coffee each. Then again, a
little Benzedrine goes a long way, and was often used in WW2.

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