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Depends on how high you are. If you're super baked and the adrenaline kicks in, you'll still be high but the herb gives you a laser focus on the action
My stepdad had a few stories from his tour of Vietnam. One he told was about getting black out drunk one day in Vietnam and waking up the next day in Cambodia. While he was drunk his unit moved into Cambodia. A few days later he was awarded a Bronze Star for taking out a machinegun nest single handed. He had to ask other in his unit what it was for. He was so drunk, he charged the nest firing his rifle and throwing grenades, "like something out of a John Wayne movie" per his fellow soldiers.
I recommend looking up his name, there’s a pretty comprehensive list of Bronze Star recipients, you might learn something you never knew about his service.
We didn’t have parties like these. Usually it started the same way but me and Pete would end up in a fistfight and Roy would usually end up vomiting on himself
I'm a Canadian combat veteran, I never went to a firefight without my little buddy, my one pint flask. After I got my boys situated I could sneak a little nip every now and again. I retired 5 years ago and haven't had a drink since.
In one hand while you high or drunk you could fight to your optimal limit but in the other hand you could also fight like Austrians who lost a retreating battle against themselves while also drunk.
It really depends on how high or drunk you are aswell. If you have a good buzz on it's easy to sober up when the adrenaline kicks in, but if you're plastered then good luck. Same with weed
@@Gameprojordan this delusion is why folk drink/drug drive. Adrenaline does not sober you up, it makes you feel energetic and stimulated, but a cognitive test would still show reduced hand-eye coordination, slower reaction time,etc, all while the subject would be reporting "feeling sober"
Random drunk: what did I miss Sober soldier: well. After you drank that beer your found by the fridge. You grabbed a sword and just decapitated the entire enemy squad
The real story goes a woman called Churchill drunk and he replied "I might be drunk but you're ugly, in the morning I'll be sober but you'll still be ugly"
By the way that fin soldier didn't intentionally take the whole supply of pervatin the pills had melted together as one because of his body heat and he just ate the whole lump of what was a pill and then he tripped mega WW2 balls and when they found him he was like 20 lbs lighter, dehydrated, starving and probably so confused it felt like he was dreaming for 2 weeks
Yea, I have a theory that he wasn’t consciously making decisions anymore. His brain saw skis, so it decided to ski. I don’t believe he used his gun at all the whole time, but at the point he was at, he probably would have thought a rifle was just a stick. He was completely blacked out for most of it I believe lol
It’s a small thing, but at the 12:00 mark you make a comparison between adrenaline and methamphetamines. You said unlike adrenaline, methamphetamines don’t affect blood pressure and that is incorrect and potentially very dangerous misinformation. It should read: “Adrenaline is short lived and quickly metabolized causing short but high spikes in blood pressure. By contrast, amphetamines and methamphetamines cause a less severe increase in blood pressure while activating the same neurological receptors and is metabolized more slowly.“ It’s not a big mistake. But it’s a small one with the potential to cause an oversized amount of harm.
@Sniperboy5551 That's probably true, but meds like Samexid(adhd medicine) are derivated from amphetamine. That's why I can't have energy drinks or more than 2 cups of coffee while on Samexid. If I do I run a very high risk of tachycardia, arrhythmia and even a full blown heart attack
To be fair adrenalin can easily sober you up after smoking bud. I also imagine a gunfight would be quick to sober one up as well. I know for sure adrenaline can sober you up fast as I've experienced it first hand lol.
Some fellow vets I know are still battling meth addiction from being given amphetamines in Vietnam. They were issued big bottles of speed each month and getting a new bottle because someone “lost” theirs was a common occurrence. When they got back to the states they would either keep up with the amphetamines or move onto meth. The fact that they were treated like filth when they got home didn’t help at all either.
All this and it was the Japanese that created it in the 1880’s with the synthesis of ephedrine. Then I’m 1885 Nagayoshi Nagai isolated the herb that the Chinese herb ma haung, that the Chinese used for thousands of years as a stimulant. And in 1893 a similar substance was synthesized in a lab and methamphetamine was born.
how does the story about that finish soldier get more insane every single time I hear it? I swear every single time I hear it a new detail is added that makes it even more insane.
Kind of a funny story from where I'm from. During the War of 1812; the first siege of Ft. Meigs. The fort wasn't complete when the British laid siege to the fort. To get the soldiers to finish building the ramparts, the for commander, General Harrison, authorized extra rations of rum to get the soldiers to continue working while being shelled. Guess it really is liquid courage.
Weed from the jungle was nothing like the stuff available nowadays... Fermented beverages were the safer drink for thousands of years (water, not so much)
They grow some of the best in Asia and turn it into hash .It was good stuff , not reggie brick from Mexico. My dad stayed high in Vietnam. Edit also thousands of soldiers became junkies shooting heroin in Vietnam.
@@KnOnHeavensDoor my uncle also smoked weed and hash in Nam, and continued doing so when he got home, right up until he passed away in his 80’s. From what I heard, he paid for the downpayment on his house by smuggling dope home from Nam when his tour was over. Of course, this was the mid to late ‘60s, before the CIA realized they could get rich doing the same.
The 1911 replacing the m1892 as mentioned is incorrect. It was replaced by the colt 1909 new service. Simple history researcher was asleep on that one.
It was probably easier to gloss over that fact than say they used the M1909 for 2 years until the adoption of the M1911. A layperson might also be unaware of other firearms like the M1941 Johnson Rifle or even the M14's service in Vietnam. Some might say you're technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.
Grant was drunk on Liqour the entire Seige of Vicksberg. He won the war and we elected him President because of it. Im not saying a drunk army is good thing because its not....but sometimes....in particular situations....
Not really Didn’t drink anymore then others And lot less then others It was misinformation by those jealous of him to get him relieved He won battles others couldn’t so Lincoln kept him
Lmao the first story made it sound like you get obliterated when you smoke weed. 😂 The adrenaline from a situation like that would kill your high faster than a light turns on. Lmao
To be fair, I learned how to drive stoned, I learned how to frame houses stoned. I get stoned nearly everyday , so it’s not that significant that people can fight a war high on pot.
As a proud Viet Nam Marine vet, I would say that from Feb68 to Oct69, as an infantryman, I never witnessed any drug or alcohol use while I'm on patrols or operations, his fellow Marines would not tolerate it.
Hitler was also a morphine addict. The combination of strong opiates and methampet Resulted in Hitler’s poor decision making leading to the ill-considered invasion of Russia
Not to be pedantic but, methamphetamine was synthesized from ephedrine in 1893 by Japanese chemist Nagai Nagayoshi. Three decades later, in 1919, methamphetamine hydrochloride was synthesized by pharmacologist Akira Ogata via reduction of ephedrine using red phosphorus and iodine.
Fresh pine needle shoots are very nutritious and every Northerner learns about this from childhood. It's a great source of vitamin C, you can brew a tea on them. Pretty refreshing too.
I don't blame him like so many people who have left their own country for the American dream and they had shown what loyalty to this country by fighting for this beautiful country and to some of them had shown what a true American is
I love the first one where he has a joint in his mouth in every scene 🤣🤣🤣, I’ve seen the Finnish soldier Aimo Koivunen story on a whole pack of meth(pervitin) 100 times and cannot stop laughing dude tried to die on accident so many times 🤣🤣 savage
I’ve never been a soldier, but in my limited experience yeah in a fight being drunk and on drugs, you go pretty hard and crazy, fight multiple dudes at once, good thing I’m trying to get my life back on track
Fighting a drunk person sober makes you feel like a Jedi.. any other drugs I could see it might help.. but fighting drunk has you all slow and off balance.
@@Btester2 well I was gonna say it saved ya money.. but if you had to buy a new phone maybe not… strip clubs have are a waste to go to for me anymore. It did serve a purpose one time though.. 😝
I tried many stuff in my life in many diff situations, but 1 thing is for sure, once a fight for your life starts all the buzz goes away, all you get is a high focus on whatever you are doing, you get shot you feel a cold burn, but the pain is numbed so you keep going till the body collapse, but theres nothing the brain can do to make you stop, all pain inducers are numbed and you keep pushing.
I read a story about a group of British soldiers in Afghanistan who whilst out on patrol had stopped for a rest or whatever & they all sat down amongst high grass, after 10 mins they were found to be smashed as they’d taken their break in a farmers cannabis field which were in flower & maybe pollen had made them fall asleep.
Marijuana doesn't really affect physical or mental ability just brings on a more stable and calming effect honestly alcohol however is a little bit of a different story😅
