Send more dip!

Ducimus · 09-08-10, 07:18 PM

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."

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.

Gerald · 09-08-10, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Ducimus

The Bizarre, Unsatisfying Things Soldiers Receive in 'Care Packages'

http://www.theatlantic.com/internati...ackages/62507/

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.

we live here and now, which is what is important..

Platapus · 09-08-10, 07:34 PM

Well, all I have to say is that while the soldiers are shooting their weapons, and the Air Force is dropping their bombs, and the Navy is shooting their missiles utterly destroying the enemy, I better not hear of any GI spitting on the ground!!!!

ETR3(SS) · 09-08-10, 07:56 PM

In a moment of complete befuddlement on a command level, we received a bunch of care packages once, after we returned from patrol.

WTF was the catch phrase of the day then.

Ducimus · 09-08-10, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

Well, all I have to say is that while the soldiers are shooting their weapons, and the Air Force is dropping their bombs, and the Navy is shooting their missiles utterly destroying the enemy, I better not hear of any GI spitting on the ground!!!!

You know at my first assignment, every truck in my duty section had dip streaks running down the exterior door panels - on both the driver and passenger side. Kinda funny looking back on it now. If one was to line up stake bed trucks, you could tell who the engineers were, just look for the dip streaks from them spitting out the window constantly.

Schöneboom · 09-09-10, 01:10 AM

Chewing tobacco?! I thought they meant chip dip! Like Creamy Ranch Style -- that I can understand!

Penguin · 09-09-10, 07:19 AM

haha, so I was not the only one who had the association that the troops receive huge amounts of taco chips and nothing to dip them in!

frau kaleun · 09-09-10, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Schöneboom

Chewing tobacco?! I thought they meant chip dip! Like Creamy Ranch Style -- that I can understand!

I totally thought this thread was about French Onion, or for a very special occasion the wonderful Artichoke Heart, Spinach and Parmesan concoction over at our local int'l market.

TLAM Strike · 09-08-10, 08:32 PM

I think we all know what our troops in the field really need from home...

CaptainMattJ. · 09-09-10, 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

I think we all know what our troops in the field really need from home...

agreed. dip and porn is what our troops need to be happy. period.

a happy, well rested soldier with a gun is more deadly then a nuke

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Ducimus · 09-09-10, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by CaptainMattJ.

agreed. dip and porn is what our troops need to be happy. period.

a happy, well rested soldier with a gun is more deadly then a nuke

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Allow me to dispel any rumors of privacy while deployed. ( At least from my experience) You sleep in a tent, or bunker, with 10-12 other dudes who know (or learn) everything about you, and give each other a rash of crap for the hell of it. Suffice to say, Rosy palm and her five sisters will not be paying you any congical visits until you get home.

CaptainMattJ. · 09-09-10, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Ducimus

Allow me to dispel any rumors of privacy while deployed. ( At least from my experience) You sleep in a tent, or bunker, with 10-12 other dudes who know (or learn) everything about you, and give each other a rash of crap for the hell of it. Suffice to say, Rosy palm and her five sisters will not be paying you any congical visits until you get home.

they could volunteer for perimeter duty, dig a foxhole and itllbe just like being at home, without the possibility of rejection AND your child/wife/mom/friend cant walk in on you!

Ducimus · 09-09-10, 06:14 PM

I think the best chance to rub one out might be an outhouse or portajohn. But then, nobody wants to hang out for very long in one of those hot, smelly, fly infested things.

frau kaleun · 09-09-10, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by CaptainMattJ.

they could volunteer for perimeter duty, dig a foxhole and itllbe just like being at home, without the possibility of rejection AND your child/wife/mom/friend cant walk in on you!

Yeah, but can you do that and watch the perimeter at the same time?

Seriously, I bet this is how the Battle of the Bulge started.

09-08-10, 07:34 PM	#3
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,375 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Well, all I have to say is that while the soldiers are shooting their weapons, and the Air Force is dropping their bombs, and the Navy is shooting their missiles utterly destroying the enemy, I better not hear of any GI spitting on the ground!!!! __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

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ETR3(SS) Ocean Warrior Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Between test depth and periscope depth Posts: 3,021 Downloads: 175 Uploads: 16	In a moment of complete befuddlement on a command level, we received a bunch of care packages once, after we returned from patrol. WTF was the catch phrase of the day then. __________________ USS Kentucky SSBN 737 (G) Comms Div 2003-2006 Qualified 19 November 03 Yes I was really on a submarine.

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Schöneboom Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: San Francisco, CA Posts: 651 Downloads: 36 Uploads: 0	Chewing tobacco?! I thought they meant chip dip! Like Creamy Ranch Style -- that I can understand! __________________ Dietrich Schöneboom, U-431 "Es wird klappen, Herr Kaleun. Ganz sicher."

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TLAM Strike Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Rochester, New York Posts: 8,633 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 6	I think we all know what our troops in the field really need from home... __________________

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Penguin Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Rheinische Republik Posts: 3,322 Downloads: 92 Uploads: 0	haha, so I was not the only one who had the association that the troops receive huge amounts of taco chips and nothing to dip them in!

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Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	I think the best chance to rub one out might be an outhouse or portajohn. But then, nobody wants to hang out for very long in one of those hot, smelly, fly infested things.