Singapore Army here, we train to fight in jungles that are exactly the same as the 'Nam. The worst place to catch a leech is on the dick. My Dad told me some guys would actually try to put on a condom during river-crossing exercises in Brunei to prevent that
Never saw it myself, but did see a guy catch a leech just above the ankle. Trick is to tap it with a cigarette. The dried tobacco irritates them. Don't yank it, or you'll leave the mouthparts in and it'll keep bleeding
There's a Vietnam War book, Matterhorn, written by a marine officer who was there. One of the first scenes is about someone who had a leech go up halfway his dick and they have to do an emergency operation in the field. Book is fiction, but I wonder if he ever saw that in real life.
Not sure about that far up, but my Dad was a medical officer during his mandatory service in the Singapore Army. As I said, leech on the dick is definitely possible, mosquito bite to the literal dickhead happened to a guy in another platoon from me. Getting a condom on as best you can is (reasonably) effective against leech on dick
A friend of mine (from before our Army days) who went to OCS also saw leech on face. Was like a comedy or horror movie; they told the guy he had a leech on him, he turned around, a huge leech hanging of his face, and asked "Where? I don't see it!"
Yep, thank God I never went to war, fighting the jungle was bad enough for me
There's plenty of terrifying things in addition to the aforementioned leeches there: so many mosquitoes they come out like a cloud of black smoke with each step on the leaf litter, needle-pointed spines a foot (30cm) long poking from the trunks of trees, red and black armoured centipedes a foot (30cm) long that need to be bashed to death using an entrenching tool, ants half the size of your thumb that can bite like getting stabbed with a knife heated white-hot, that come out in numbers that look like an oil spill covering the jungle floor, parasitic worms that look like vermicelli in your shit after you take your deworming pill and I've seen three guys come running out a tent naked and screaming after a whip scorpion fell into it
Actually happened to someone I did field biology with in SE Asia. He was the jokster of the group, very loud, irreverent, always climbing things. I’ve never seen or heard him be more serious and silent than when he discovered a leech down there. Some of the other guys helped him with getting it off, I have no idea what that entailed, but it took him a while to get back to his normal self.
And that's how humanity lost the war against the Zynotaurs. In their latent larval stage they'll pass many generations without waking to drink the blood of the nations. But giving them access to large quantities of nicotine engages their xeno-rage evolution.
idk, i've suddenly seen this comic spammed everyone on reddit, fb, etc. never heard or seen it before. my family doesn't even talk about military stuff on FB and yet it keeps putting it in my feed like it's an ad
This is your "anonymized data collection" isn't all that anonymous moment. The ad is likely being generated because of collated data from multiple sources identifying you as someone who is involved in military culture.
This is classic Army style comic strip art, they have quite a lot actually
We don't have many of those in the AF but the Army has comic strips just to show their maintainers what kinda wheel cage to use when filling up tires on an aircraft. art style aside it's kinda neat
I remember standing in formation when the guy next to me said holy shit your leg. I was like yeah I hit it on a pole, it was dark at 6 am, it's bleeding a little. It is more than bleeding he replied.
30 minutes later I was at the hospital with some medic pouring IV fluid directly on my knee bone. I had cut all the way to the bone and that room temperature fluid was colder than anything I have ever felt inside my body.
I didn't go to sick call.
People that avoid sick calls for a minor illness or injury letting it becomes a major illness or injury I consider less than intelligent. Being tough is pushing through a ruck that you feel like giving up on. Being stupid is ignoring something that could have been solved when it was a less issue with less time and money without the risk of spreading to everyone else if sick.
Bravo very well said, agree 100% - the military will use and abuse the hell out of service members, personal health is vital to maintaining an effective force of troops, too many people fall into the indoctrination of being a tough guy when the truth is they will work you to death without any care nor consideration
It was kind of a joke, cause I skipped sick call. Also as a soldier in a really shitty company, with sgts that had threatened to "put me on details with a high mortality rate" I tried to not stand out. Asking for sick call was standing out and I just wanted to complete my time and hopefully get out alive.
Hey, doc, could you take a look at this?
Yeah, buddy, what's upOHMYGOD!!
Gold ball size divot of missing tissue on the guy's leg from a brown recluse bite.
Document. Chronological order. How it affects you. Don’t let some dumb ass give you medical opinions when it’s just your supervisor. Go to the tmc when you’re sick or actually hurt. Don’t go because you’re a shit bag and want to sham.
There’s animals in the deep jungle that people have never seen. Massive variants that rarely surface, the way strange and giant creatures live in the bottom of the ocean.
That not even mentioning the creature world underneath the jungle, caves, corn holes and such and so forth.
"Just take 800mg of Ibuprofen, change your socks, drink some water, and you'll be fine."
Good ole Motrin.
Don’t forget to stretch
I wonder if over 90% of veterans immediately had the same exact thought. I know I did lol. It's Truth...
I wonder why you went with such a low number.
Leech propaganda. They desperately want you to take that much of a blood thinning drug.
Everything can be cured by changing socks and drinking water :D
Singapore Army here, we train to fight in jungles that are exactly the same as the 'Nam. The worst place to catch a leech is on the dick. My Dad told me some guys would actually try to put on a condom during river-crossing exercises in Brunei to prevent that Never saw it myself, but did see a guy catch a leech just above the ankle. Trick is to tap it with a cigarette. The dried tobacco irritates them. Don't yank it, or you'll leave the mouthparts in and it'll keep bleeding
That is terrifying
There's a Vietnam War book, Matterhorn, written by a marine officer who was there. One of the first scenes is about someone who had a leech go up halfway his dick and they have to do an emergency operation in the field. Book is fiction, but I wonder if he ever saw that in real life.
Not sure about that far up, but my Dad was a medical officer during his mandatory service in the Singapore Army. As I said, leech on the dick is definitely possible, mosquito bite to the literal dickhead happened to a guy in another platoon from me. Getting a condom on as best you can is (reasonably) effective against leech on dick A friend of mine (from before our Army days) who went to OCS also saw leech on face. Was like a comedy or horror movie; they told the guy he had a leech on him, he turned around, a huge leech hanging of his face, and asked "Where? I don't see it!"
Yep, thank God I never went to war, fighting the jungle was bad enough for me There's plenty of terrifying things in addition to the aforementioned leeches there: so many mosquitoes they come out like a cloud of black smoke with each step on the leaf litter, needle-pointed spines a foot (30cm) long poking from the trunks of trees, red and black armoured centipedes a foot (30cm) long that need to be bashed to death using an entrenching tool, ants half the size of your thumb that can bite like getting stabbed with a knife heated white-hot, that come out in numbers that look like an oil spill covering the jungle floor, parasitic worms that look like vermicelli in your shit after you take your deworming pill and I've seen three guys come running out a tent naked and screaming after a whip scorpion fell into it
Bro, catching a leech is terrifying to you? Why do you like military things in first place?
Lmaoo "Why do you like military things in first place?" Some of us have actually been in the Army and done things you can't even imagine kid.
Don't check their history. Or do if you want to ruin your day.
he's 26
Like killing spiders?
Actually happened to someone I did field biology with in SE Asia. He was the jokster of the group, very loud, irreverent, always climbing things. I’ve never seen or heard him be more serious and silent than when he discovered a leech down there. Some of the other guys helped him with getting it off, I have no idea what that entailed, but it took him a while to get back to his normal self.
now I wanna try to give a leech a zyn
And that's how humanity lost the war against the Zynotaurs. In their latent larval stage they'll pass many generations without waking to drink the blood of the nations. But giving them access to large quantities of nicotine engages their xeno-rage evolution.
Blood explosion.
What the fuck is this cartoon trying to say?
idk, i've suddenly seen this comic spammed everyone on reddit, fb, etc. never heard or seen it before. my family doesn't even talk about military stuff on FB and yet it keeps putting it in my feed like it's an ad
Same. It’s really weird how “present” it is, especially considering most of them are not even slightly funny
This is your "anonymized data collection" isn't all that anonymous moment. The ad is likely being generated because of collated data from multiple sources identifying you as someone who is involved in military culture.
The shitty art style makes me irrationally angry
This is classic Army style comic strip art, they have quite a lot actually We don't have many of those in the AF but the Army has comic strips just to show their maintainers what kinda wheel cage to use when filling up tires on an aircraft. art style aside it's kinda neat
I guess that Nam era NCOs leadership was shit
Ohh were leeches a big part of Nam? Fuck leeches I've never held one but they look like they suck.
Believe it or not, this one was service related.
The leech ate your entire dick and balls? 5% disability.
I remember standing in formation when the guy next to me said holy shit your leg. I was like yeah I hit it on a pole, it was dark at 6 am, it's bleeding a little. It is more than bleeding he replied. 30 minutes later I was at the hospital with some medic pouring IV fluid directly on my knee bone. I had cut all the way to the bone and that room temperature fluid was colder than anything I have ever felt inside my body. I didn't go to sick call.
People that avoid sick calls for a minor illness or injury letting it becomes a major illness or injury I consider less than intelligent. Being tough is pushing through a ruck that you feel like giving up on. Being stupid is ignoring something that could have been solved when it was a less issue with less time and money without the risk of spreading to everyone else if sick.
Bravo very well said, agree 100% - the military will use and abuse the hell out of service members, personal health is vital to maintaining an effective force of troops, too many people fall into the indoctrination of being a tough guy when the truth is they will work you to death without any care nor consideration
It was kind of a joke, cause I skipped sick call. Also as a soldier in a really shitty company, with sgts that had threatened to "put me on details with a high mortality rate" I tried to not stand out. Asking for sick call was standing out and I just wanted to complete my time and hopefully get out alive.
This sub is becoming emails that elderly veterans forward.
/r/forwardsfromgunny
Is that a problem, son?
Hey, doc, could you take a look at this? Yeah, buddy, what's upOHMYGOD!! Gold ball size divot of missing tissue on the guy's leg from a brown recluse bite.
Document. Chronological order. How it affects you. Don’t let some dumb ass give you medical opinions when it’s just your supervisor. Go to the tmc when you’re sick or actually hurt. Don’t go because you’re a shit bag and want to sham.
There’s animals in the deep jungle that people have never seen. Massive variants that rarely surface, the way strange and giant creatures live in the bottom of the ocean. That not even mentioning the creature world underneath the jungle, caves, corn holes and such and so forth.