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Military facts are a dime a dozen, but here are some of our favorites!
1. For combat circumstances such as scouting for traps, hauling heavy gear, searching for survivors, underwater diving, taking victims to safety, and battle with enemy, the US Military uses a variety of robots. Drones, which are remotely controlled aircraft that carry high-grade cameras, bombs, or missiles, are among the most popular devices used.
2. Non-lubricated condoms are standard issue in US Military Parachute Pack Survival Kits. The condoms not only provide a safe sex alternative, but they also serve as an emergency water canteen, holding up to a liter of water...the more you know!
3. The US military has sent 2,700 Military Working Dogs to 600 combat zones throughout the world. MWDs discovered 12,500 pounds of explosives in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2005 and 2010. Each dog is said to be responsible for saving between 150 and 1,800 lives.
Share your favorite, oddest, funniest military facts below!
1. For combat circumstances such as scouting for traps, hauling heavy gear, searching for survivors, underwater diving, taking victims to safety, and battle with enemy, the US Military uses a variety of robots. Drones, which are remotely controlled aircraft that carry high-grade cameras, bombs, or missiles, are among the most popular devices used.
2. Non-lubricated condoms are standard issue in US Military Parachute Pack Survival Kits. The condoms not only provide a safe sex alternative, but they also serve as an emergency water canteen, holding up to a liter of water...the more you know!
3. The US military has sent 2,700 Military Working Dogs to 600 combat zones throughout the world. MWDs discovered 12,500 pounds of explosives in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2005 and 2010. Each dog is said to be responsible for saving between 150 and 1,800 lives.
Share your favorite, oddest, funniest military facts below!
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Everyone in my unit carried non lubricated condoms for muzzle covers in wet or sandy conditions. You can fire through them if needed. We also all carried two tampons and two panty liners for first aid purposes.
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SGT Charles Bartell
1SG Marc Jensen - Bull, Pads are great for presser bandages.
By the way I was a combat medic and used them in both combat and in the civilian world.
The Israeli Military started using them back at the beginning of the six day war.
And when it comes to combat medicine they are the best.
By the way I was a combat medic and used them in both combat and in the civilian world.
The Israeli Military started using them back at the beginning of the six day war.
And when it comes to combat medicine they are the best.
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1SG Marc Jensen
They are not effective, and with so many viable options available today, with current technology, there is no reason to use sub-standard items.
I highly recommend commenters get some current, quality medical training before they espouse more disproven old wives tales and folk lore.
I highly recommend commenters get some current, quality medical training before they espouse more disproven old wives tales and folk lore.
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1SG Marc Jensen - You can keep espousing whatever you wish. I've used them. They work. You're wrong. End of story.
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SPC Tamara Trammell
Soldiers who survive having a tampon shoved under their skin tend to have wounds they would have survived anyway with minimal or no medical assistance -an effective way of fueling the stories that 'They work'.
By the time I deployed to Afghanistan, incident investigators were fed up with pulling feminine hygiene products off American corpses. We were ordered to remove tampons from the Aide Station supply to stop soldiers from trying stupid ideas off the internet -female soldiers would have to find their own (None of us complained. GI tampons are shit.)
Tampons are designed to get fluffy and soft when wet. They're designed to be gentle on delicate membranes. Pads are designed to pull blood away from the skin. These qualities make them terrible for stopping exsanguination (bleeding out.)
You still want anecdotal arguments? I have twenty years experience with blood and feminine hygiene products. They're not very effective.
By the time I deployed to Afghanistan, incident investigators were fed up with pulling feminine hygiene products off American corpses. We were ordered to remove tampons from the Aide Station supply to stop soldiers from trying stupid ideas off the internet -female soldiers would have to find their own (None of us complained. GI tampons are shit.)
Tampons are designed to get fluffy and soft when wet. They're designed to be gentle on delicate membranes. Pads are designed to pull blood away from the skin. These qualities make them terrible for stopping exsanguination (bleeding out.)
You still want anecdotal arguments? I have twenty years experience with blood and feminine hygiene products. They're not very effective.
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In Nam condoms were pulled over the mussel of weapons to protect them from rain and debris.
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I understand debris, but in an M16/M4 it won't do much for rain considering the split receiver and mag well....
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1LT Vance Titus
WO1 Jeff Carroll...I carried a 12-guage shotgun; first one was a Remington pump and the second a Winchester double barrell.
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I’m skeptical whenever I hear guys talking about using tampons for gunshot wounds. I’ve been a medic for 40 years, military and civilian and I call BS on it. Why not just use- oh I don’t know, a FIELD DRESSING? Tampons suck , they’re not sterile, and they disintegrate. I never knew one self-respecting medic who knew better actually use a tampon for a gunshot wound
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1SG Marc Jensen
Exactly, too many on here regurgitating nonsense like a bunch of Walter Mitty's or Wannabe MacGiver's….
Tampons and pads are ineffective for hemorrhage control and not even a good "iTs BeTtEr ThAn NoThInG" last resort; if you are going to go through the motions of 'being prepared' then be prepared with proper equipment...and get some proper, current training, too.
Tampons and pads are ineffective for hemorrhage control and not even a good "iTs BeTtEr ThAn NoThInG" last resort; if you are going to go through the motions of 'being prepared' then be prepared with proper equipment...and get some proper, current training, too.
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When I was a senior medic I squashed that quickly in my unit. There were old crusties still carrying them from OIF1 and I showed them how much Kerlex we stuff into a wound and then how it bitty that tampon was. That helped them get the point
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On a certain day in 1972 if from a plane it was overland Vietnam that an NVA Pilot had dropped multitudes of paper promise/propaganda/fliers that by presenting one to your Captors when caught the paper fliers expressed examples such as promises of no jail/POW time and free farmland to farm,that for we Sailors and Marines on the USS Schenectady it appeared like paper cash flowing down from above. Only a few such fliers by Troops that day were caught before strong gusts of wind blew many others of them overboard where out in the water others of the multitudes of such fliers had already begun peppering the oceans water like the remembrance of Lilly Pads in the many of our Steuben County lakes back in Indiana,and is but another fact of reason if we aboard the USS Schenectady were not the intended drop zone target but inland Vietnam was,that it was cool for our government to extend Agent Orange claiming rights for we Blue Water Vets out at sea to 12(?) nautical miles as we On Deck could not even see land at that time on that particular day in 1972...NE/IN COLD'N COLDER FREE PRESS:
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Cpl Ronald Everitt
Had to take a deep dive into the memory banks of my 1972 five times having been there to recall just what T-Rats were and too is where the new coined Recruiting Tool phrase where the new Corps "Is looking for a few good men" as it must of first come about from inside the old Corps as an Re-Enlistment Tool looking For a Few Good Men ...when Draft Laws were yet being 100% implemented to fill the Ranks.
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