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I remember many years ago a report I read where they gave Navy crews caffeine pills to see how long they could keep them awake and alert for work conditions. I thought it was a bad idea then.
I’m all for a good caffeine dose but the body is only made to do so much. I get slightly unsteady, mentally off balanced, and beyond emotionally cranky when I hit 24 hours no matter how much caffeine I got going. I need my sleep and I’m not good without it.
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It is astounding how many energy drinks are sold…..to young, middle, and old. Some of them are quite potent and do they realize that at some point….you will have to “pay back that loan”?
I DO have powder for making energy drinks ….in my emergency kits. Under certain circumstances, they could be very useful…like EVAC from wildfire or other deadly situations. But other than testing to see what my personal reaction will be if I take it, I leave it for a real emergency.
OldMtWoman …also can’t stand taste of coffee- I drink well water mostly.
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I think we have just produced a very weak society as a whole . That lack of strength will become part of our military , it cant not travel into it . Things don’t help the situation , when there are no goals , or intention of winning . They come back with too many questions , that have no positive answer . I also think that technology dependance has already reached a point that is destructive to our society . People cant cope , because they have never had to deal with anything real . It would be easier for a junkie to give up heroin , cold turkey , than an American to give up their cell phones for a month .
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You make a very good point Tolik. Technology has become it’s own type of drug. Entire generations are losing the ability to exist on their own two feet, to do and think for themselves, to prove themselves on their own abilities.
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This is hardly a new thing. Meth came from soldier enhancing. Nazis started that. The Pacific in WW2 for full of juiced up machete holders. Think it was our Air Force that jumped on it first. Hard to fly for 18hrs straight.
America demands that soldiers do so we do what we gotta do. You don’t sleep the first 3 days. We even regularly train for it cause it’s fact. Figure from Kuwait to Baghdad in 3 days and you’ll see.
Just curious as to how many years and how many operations y’all were on? I pulled 21. 12 active the rest National Guard.
Of course there is a toll on the body as with carrying 100lb loads up mountains and hearing loss from equipment, gunfights and explosions. High blood pressure from being high speed low drag for decades with 12-18hr days and no weekends.
When I was active almost everyone faced double knee replacement because of the amount of “healthy” running we do in peacetime.
The mental toll of killing, seeing killed, being killed and the other “smaller” stuff like watching kids starve while dirty and unclothed chasing a dog down for something to eat might have more to do with things than a bang.
Yeah caffeine makes ya jittery making it harder to control emotions. Ya don’t need to be a scientist to figure that one.
Not everything is PTSD and we are broken either. I reject that. I’m a product of my environment. I’m highly trained and skilled and I see and feel things the rest of y’all don’t. Me and others being more in tune and reactive isn’t us being broken.
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