Diet Pills

[Tuesday Smith]

Best u stick to the Diet Coke D Man.......pounds will fall off u so quickly u will have to get hired help to sweep em out the door

 

[Sarah Stone]

Honest question Mr D..

Dont the army hand out dexidrine and things ??? when it suits them ??

I know my grandad was kept on dexies loads while flying sortie after sortie in the RAF WWII..

 

[Gloria F La Flakka]

Not that I am aware of..........

I have popped cheap over the counter massageplanetfiene tablets (Methyxanthine - sounds really bad when given its chem name - Don't see that on a jar of Nesmassageplanete do you?) to try and stay awake on long exercises in the past but nothing more than that. In our ration packs there used to be packets of lemon and orange dextrose tablets (Sugar/Glucose) to keep popping in your mouth on long tabs across country. I think they stopped them a while back, tasted like chalky poo anyway.

We had the CDT (Compulsory Drugs Testing) and if found with speed (and/or cannabis) in your system you were drummed out of the Army very soon after that.

We were 'offered' NAPS (Nerve Agent Protection System) in the Gulf which is a small dose of atropine to kick off your own immune system against the cloud of the stuff likely to be dropped on you.

The symptoms of nerve agent poisoning (Drags up training from murky past) pin-pointed pupils (dilated) sweating, involuntary urination and defacation, shoreforum.xxxe or breath, cold, wet clammy skin. Sounds like me trying to get up in the morning! :what: We were given an initial dose to take and then three auto-injectors with a two inch needle to get through all your kit. These were to be used if feeling the above effects in yourself.

Heard of bromide in tea. Supposed to surpress sexual libido in the chaps while serving overseas and all that. Total nonsense if you ask me and a bit of an old wives tale. Definately no diet pills! 5555555 The gym staff sorted that out and two fitness tests a year, again, fail, given a re-test, fail, out of a job!

Beer (or alcohol generally) does it for me as a relaxant. Gone are the days I wanted to be up all night and needed a chemical to help me. I just fall asleep where I am now which can be embarrassing when 'on the job' :embrassed

 

[gabrielle]

just job are we talkin' about here Denver.......mum......has Denver ever.........

 

[Pompal 09.]

OK.. Must admit I would have guessed that it was a tool that would have been used when suited.

I remember talking to some US marines when they were in port.. They were big lads and said that on the US ships they turned a blind eye to the roid use (and supply), yet the US has some of the harshest anti roid laws in the world. They actually wanted a 'hookup' and didnt realize it was OTC here.

 

[Zumaria]

I can honestly say Sef that during my time, and I did a fair stretch, I didn't see anything given to the lads that was 'officially' sanctioned or available at the Med Center or QM Stores. I was issued Morphine (After training on when and how to administer) on three seperate occasions which was very strictly controlled i.e. signed for, checked regularly and then signed back in again at the end of the period you may have cause to use it.

WW2 pilots doing the longer runs deep into Germany in slow aircraft I can imagine were helped to stay awake and focused. Different circumstance, difficult days. Respect. Remembering that those lads had been at it for five years, longest conflict I've been in was maybe six months! I may need something stronger than coffee by then! 5555555

I didn't hear of any steroid abuse and there were some big lads around. If they were, then they were discrete and again, open to random compulsory drugs testing with a positive result ending in loss of pension and livelyhood. The CDT teams knew all the various angles and I know of quite a few cases where lads came unstuck by being tested as they got off planes from home leave. Straight down the aircraft steps, into a tent with portaloos, have the old p1ss taken while watched (No p1ssing for a mate etc) two seperate bottles, one for the CDT labs test and one for you to have your own independant test done if you were suddenly invited for an 'interview without coffee' with the Commanding Officer.

I'll stick to my vices of Nicotine, Alcohol, Adrenaline and the odd *Ethoxy-methylpiperazin-sulfonyl-phenyl-methyl-prop-tetrazabicyclo-nona-trien-hydroxypropane-tricarboxylic acid....Phew!!

(*They're blue and diamond shaped!)

 

[badspeller]

You off the Diet Coke then D Man ?

Let you into a secret....you don't actually lose weight drinking Diet Coke......it's kinda just like eating pizza but not eating the crusts.

 

[Johneisha]

What you trying to say Mav? You saying I'm fat?

 

[Lincoln6]

Maybe HHPLC's database is incorrect then