The Bizarre, Unsatisfying Things Soldiers Receive in 'Care Packages'
http://www.theatlantic.com/internati...ackages/62507/
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"If they really want to support their troops," a soldier from the 1-502 Infantry Battalion told me last month in Kandahar's unpleasant Zhari district, "folks should quit it with all the other stuff and just send more dip."
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I got a good laugh out of this. But you know... thinking back... it's true. I and alot of people I knew (despite it being another time, and another place), had a pretty good dip habit. I quit when i got out, but while I was in, I had a dip ring in the front left pocket of my BDU pants. Maybe I thought I was cool, or maybe it was all the heavy equpiment I was around or operating. *shrug*
But.... You can't always smoke, but you can almost always dip or chew, and nicotine calms the nerves. That solider has a point. I wonder where i can mail a log of Skoal, Kodiak, or Copenhagen. (or Caugh n gaggin as it was sometimes called).
Good thing i don't dip now though.
But when your deployed overseas? Phhht nobody cares about something that might kill you 20 to 50 years later with so many things that can jack you up in the here and now.