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.

TLAM Strike · 09-08-10, 08:32 PM

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

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.

Ducimus · 09-09-10, 03:32 PM

Bit more to it, but this is good for the uninitiated.

http://www.cracked.com/funny-4374-dipping-tobacco/

Between Skoal, and Coppenhagen, is Kodiak i believe. I knew alot of guys who liked kodiak. Every brand has its fans, just like coffin nails. Some like malboro lights, others like reds. *shrug*

Of course there's chewing tabacco, which is different from snuff/dip. Chewing tabacco is the full leaves. Comes in a pouch, not a can. You can get a pretty good ball of chew going with it. Also makes you "juice" more too. Dip doesn't make you juice so much. At my worst, when i was off duty, id have a wad of redman (chewing tabacco) in one cheek, a beer in one hand, and a coffin nail in the other. Spit, drink, drag. In that order.

I guess i was determined to **** myself up as best as i could with what was legal.

Gerald · 09-09-10, 03:49 PM

Ducimus · 09-09-10, 03:51 PM

That stuffs for wussy's, and people who don't know how to pack their dip right.

Gerald · 09-09-10, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Ducimus

That stuffs for wussy's, and people who don't know how to pack their dip right.

right

Ducimus · 09-09-10, 05:02 PM

heh, I gave up the habit after I had a gum graft done by some Air Force Quack looking to build his porftolio. That was enough to scare me right out of my nicotine addiction.

Oberon · 09-09-10, 05:13 PM

I recall reading about Hog pilots back in the Gulf war whose enterprising families managed to circumvent the alcohol ban in Saudi Arabia by filling Scotch envelopes (there's a pun in here I know it) with liquor and then putting another bag inside so that there was a layer of liquor between the envelope and the gift. The first pilot was so frustrated that his wife/friend had just sent him some random little nothing of a gift that he stabbed the envelope...and then it was a case of "No-one move!"

Others tried to make their own stills, which often resulted in yeast inspired explosions.

The improvisation within the armed forces is top notch.

09-08-10, 07:34 PM	#3
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,362 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.

09-08-10, 07:56 PM	#4
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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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... __________________

09-09-10, 01:10 AM	#7
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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Gerald SUBSIM Newsman Join Date: May 2008 Location: Close to sea Posts: 24,254 Downloads: 553 Uploads: 0	Something similar to this, __________________ Nothing in life is to be feard,it is only to be understood. Marie Curie

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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!

09-09-10, 03:32 PM	#10
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	Bit more to it, but this is good for the uninitiated. http://www.cracked.com/funny-4374-dipping-tobacco/ Between Skoal, and Coppenhagen, is Kodiak i believe. I knew alot of guys who liked kodiak. Every brand has its fans, just like coffin nails. Some like malboro lights, others like reds. shrug Of course there's chewing tabacco, which is different from snuff/dip. Chewing tabacco is the full leaves. Comes in a pouch, not a can. You can get a pretty good ball of chew going with it. Also makes you "juice" more too. Dip doesn't make you juice so much. At my worst, when i was off duty, id have a wad of redman (chewing tabacco) in one cheek, a beer in one hand, and a coffin nail in the other. Spit, drink, drag. In that order. I guess i was determined to **** myself up as best as i could with what was legal.

09-09-10, 03:51 PM	#12
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	That stuffs for wussy's, and people who don't know how to pack their dip right.

09-09-10, 05:02 PM	#14
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	heh, I gave up the habit after I had a gum graft done by some Air Force Quack looking to build his porftolio. That was enough to scare me right out of my nicotine addiction.

09-09-10, 05:13 PM	#15
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	I recall reading about Hog pilots back in the Gulf war whose enterprising families managed to circumvent the alcohol ban in Saudi Arabia by filling Scotch envelopes (there's a pun in here I know it) with liquor and then putting another bag inside so that there was a layer of liquor between the envelope and the gift. The first pilot was so frustrated that his wife/friend had just sent him some random little nothing of a gift that he stabbed the envelope...and then it was a case of "No-one move!" Others tried to make their own stills, which often resulted in yeast inspired explosions. The improvisation within the armed forces is top notch.