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NEWS: CNN.com 26 Oct 01: Report: Caffeine keeps soldiers sharp

BigTrancer

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Report: Caffeine keeps soldiers sharp
October 26, 2001 Posted: 10:44 AM EDT (1444 GMT)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Go ahead with that second cup of joe, soldier.
Caffeine can help increase reaction time and improve performance for military servicemen who must perform complex tasks or who need help staying alert for longer periods of time, according to a new report by the National Academy of Sciences.
The report, by the academy's Institute of Medicine, found that 100 to 600 mg of caffeine, the equivalent of one to six cups of coffee, can help "maintain cognitive performance," especially in times of sleep deprivation...
Full article at: http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/diet.fitness/10/26/military.caffeine.ap/index.html
Hmm... have we heard of meth-powered military somewhere before?
BigTrancer
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he wasn't alone...
It is also rumored that Kennedy was visited in the White House by Dr. Max Jacobson, who was later labeled by the tabloids "Dr. Feelgood" due to his propensity for giving his patients injections of amphetamines and other mood-elevating substances to cure anything from a cold to a divorce. After an investigation, he lost his medical license. Who knows how many of Kennedy's staff were also "treated" by Dr. Jacobson while at the White House. Can you imagine? For three years, the trembling hand of an intravenous speed-freak might have been hovering over the great nuclear Button.
http://www.mcwilliams.com/books/aint/105.htm
 
Modafinil, one of the 'other' drugs the army is considering. It's active agent is PROVIGIL (modafinil) - a wakefulness-promoting agent for oral administration. Modafinil is a racemic compound. The chemical name for modafinil is 2-[(diphenylmethyl)sulfinyl]acetamide.
For the treatment of... narcolepsy.
Tasty.
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From RxList.com:
In addition to its wakefulness-promoting effects and increased locomotor activity in animals, in humans, PROVIGIL produces psychoactive and euphoric effects, alterations in mood, perception, and thinking, and feelings typical of other CNS stimulants. Modafinil is reinforcing, as evidenced by its self-administration in monkeys previously trained to self administer cocaine; modafinil was also partially discriminated as stimulant-like.
So it makes you peak, rush and roll. And it's addictive...
Although modafinil has not been shown to produce functional impairment, any drug affecting the CNS may alter judgment, thinking or motor skills. Patients should be cautioned about operating an automobile or other hazardous machinery until they are reasonably certain that PROVIGIL therapy will not adversely affect their ability to engage in such activities.
... and you should not operate heavy machinery or do things that require motor control, judgement or concentration...
nice!
... but from the sounds of this drug's monograph on RxList, I wouldn't want my AWACS operators on it.
BigTrancer
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Yeah, wouldn't caffeine pills give soldiers the big time shakes?
Great for their marksmanship skills....
Probably have it in cocktails with shit loads of Prozac or Durazac or something.
 
Yeah, but then they take diazepam to calm them down. Then more caffeine cos it calms them down too much, then more diazepam.
The army are drugfucked! Heh
The soldiers of the war on terroism are powered by drugs, good to hear...
I think all the worlds leaders should be given some hefty doses of lsd when important decisions are to be made, it sure would create an interesting world. Heh, interesting and completely fucked up of course
Adikkal
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Well im pretty sure i read a while back that durng WW2 it was standard to give soldiers Ampethamines for battle situations and for "long bombing flights".. On another point, the huge amount of amphetamines produced over the war period ment there was huge excess when the war was over.. These drugs then became avaliable in stores for the public, promoting "energy and vitalagy". Th public (in japan) quickly took this up and large amounts were sold until they were finally banned (i guess when the suppies ran out).
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Going out at night the medics gave you pills, Dexedrine breath like dead snakes kept too long in a jar. I never saw the need for them myself, a little contact or anything that even sounded like contact would give me more speed than I could bear. Whenever I heard something outside of our clenched litlle circle I'd practically flip, hoping to God that I wasn't the only one who'd noticed it. A couple of rounds fired off in the dark a kilometere away and the Elephant would be there kneeling on my chest, sending me down into my boots for a breath.
...And I wasn't going out like the night ambushes did, or the Lurps, long-range recon patrollers who did it night after night for weeks or months, creeping up on VC base camps or around moving columns of North Vietnamese.
...Anyway, I'd save the pills for later, for Saigon and the awful depressions I always had there.
I knew one 4th Division Lurp who took his pills by the fistful, downs from the left pocket of his tiger suit and ups from the right, one to cut the trail for him and the other to send him down it. he told me that they cooled things out just right for him, that he could see hat old jungle at night like he was looking at it through a starlight scope. "They give you the range" he said.
from "Dispatches" by Michael Herr. Probably the best book ever written about the Vietnam War.
the whole first chapter is here
 
Fatigue dogged U.S. pilots
Crews urged to use amphetamines days before Canadian troops killed

Glen McGregor
Vancouver Sun
Monday, June 03, 2002
OTTAWA -- Pilots from the U.S. fighter squadron that mistakenly bombed Canadian troops in Afghanistan had told their commanders shortly before the fatal accident that they were exhausted and needed more rest between missions.
The informal meeting between pilots of the 183rd Fighter Wing and their commanding officers was convened after the unit misidentified a bombing target during a previous mission over Iraq. The 183rd, an Air National Guard unit currently stationed in Kuwait, was flying patrol missions in the no-fly zone in Southern Iraq as well as sorties over Afghanistan.
In the meeting, held in the week before Canadian soldiers were shelled by American bombs in Afghanistan, at least one F-16 pilot complained that requirements for crew rest were not being observed and that many of the pilots were overtired. The pilot was told, however, that further questions about crew rest would not be looked on favourably by the wing command.
Instead, pilots were advised to speak to a flight surgeon about so-called "go/no pills" -- amphetamines used to help stay awake on long missions, and sedatives to help sleep.
Then, on April 17, a fighter from the 183rd flying a patrol mission accidentally bombed Canadian troops conducting a live-fire exercise south of Kandahar. Four soldiers from the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry were killed and eight injured.
Pilots are supposed to get 12 hours of rest between missions, but that can be changed when the unit is in a state of alert. The 183rd has been flying missions in the no-fly zone since March. Although U.S. air force rules allow flight surgeons to prescribe dextro-amphetamine (dexe-drine), the drug is supposed to be used for long transoceanic transport flights, not combat missions.
"If they can't work around the scheduling, and people have to work extended hours, then dextro-amphetamine is approved," said Betty-Anne Mauger, a public affairs officer with the U.S. air force surgeon general.
The flight over Afghanistan that led to the bombing may have taken as long as 10 hours, not including the three to eight hours of briefings that are standard before combat missions. Most of the pilots in the 183rd Fighter Wing are part-time members who also work as commercial airline pilots.
Because of the strict requirements of civil aviation, they are acutely aware of the importance of proper crew rest. Commercial pilots are not allowed to use amphetamines.
The Canadian and U.S. military have convened their own boards of inquiry to find out why the F-16 dropped a laser guided-bomb on the Canadians. Canada's board, led by retired General Maurice Baril, said in a preliminary report last month that Canadian troops did nothing to provoke the incident.
It is still unclear whether Baril's board will be able to interview the F-16 pilot, whose identity has not been publicly disclosed.
The exact date of the 183rd's failed bombing mission in Iraq is not known, but U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) in Tampa, Florida, confirmed that U.S. fighters dropped bombs in the Southern no-fly zone just two days before the Canadians soldiers were killed in Afghanistan.
On the morning of April 15, two U.S. F-16s flying over Thi-Qar province used laser-guided bombs to attack a radar installation after it locked onto the aircraft. CENTCOM did not say if the attack was successful, and there is no indication that Iraqi civilians or military personnel were killed or injured.
It was the first bombing of ground targets in Iraq since January, according to CENTCOM.
The Iraq News Agency reported that "civil and service installations" were attacked by U.S. fighters flying from Kuwait that day. Iraqi officials said that the coalition forces had flown 37 sorties in the southern no-fly zone the morning of the bombing.
Citing security concerns, CENTCOM will not say which U.S. unit was involved in the Iraqi incident, nor will it confirm any subsequent meeting between pilots and commanders in the 183rd Fighter Wing.
There is no evidence that the pilots involved in either bombing had taken any of the stimulants offered. But the use of amphetamines was common among American fighter pilots in the Gulf War, according to journalist Rick Atkinson, author of Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War.
"There was concern in some squadrons that the pilots were becoming psychologically, if not physically, addicted to the pills," he told PBS's Frontline last year.
Atkinson estimates two-thirds of all pilots in Desert Storm used dexedrine at least once. "Some commanders became concerned enough to ban the flight surgeons from issuing further 'go' pills. It became remarkably divisive within some squadrons."
http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/story.asp?id=333872FC-939F-48B2-B7B7-FAF7832DF93D
 
To be honest. I would feel much safer if my pilot was on 10mg-20mg of methamphetamine then on four cups of coffee. Just imagine the jitters when landing!! Ouch..
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Nazis developed drug for super-soldiers
November 18 2002
The Nazis developed a cocaine-based drug to boost the performance of their soldiers in combat during World War II and tested it on prisoners in 1944, according to a report in the latest edition of Focus magazine.
"It was Hitler's last secret weapon to win a war he had already lost long ago," said criminologist Wolf Kemper, who is about to publish a book on the Third Reich's use of drugs called Nazis on Speed.
The drug, codenamed D-IX, was tested at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp north of Berlin, where prisoners loaded with 20kg packs were reported to have marched 90km without rest.
"After 24 hours, most were completely exhausted," one former prisoner wrote in his diary, according to Kemper's book.
Focus said the Nazis had planned to issue the drug to all their soldiers, but Allied forces closed in before the project could get off the ground.
Kemper said that from 1933 the Nazis had campaigned against the use of drugs, particularly cocaine, which was widely used in the 1920s.
But as early as 1939, German soldiers were supplied with the amphetamine Pervitine, with about 29 million pills being delivered to the troops from April to December that year.
AFP
From: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/11/18/1037490095885.html
"... reported to have marched 90km without rest." -- Holy shit! That's some serious stimulant action.
BigTrancer :)
 
Of course every media outlet that ran this wire story failed to give any balance by saying that Allied troops took speed too, and still do to this very day.
I've tried to order this book but it seems it is only available in German at the moment. Scheiße!
 
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