Would you toke up during combat?

I am watching a documentary about British troops in Afghanistan right now and the unit that they are following has quite a few Afghan National Army troops working with them. One thing they kinda loled at was every time the ANA guys got a break in fighting they would bust out the weed and start passing it around.

The British soldiers said that they could never imagine tokin' up with the enemy a few hundred yards away and it was pretty clear that more than a few of the ANA guys were so fucked up that they were making really bad decisions (one of them walked out from behind cover to fire a few rounds and the mag on his rifle took a hit).

I am to the point now where the schwag I get locally is more like a cup of coffee to me (I smoke about 3 times a day) and honestly I don't feel "awake" in the morning without it. Like most people here know, after a few puffs your thought process starts to work a little differently and ideas that would have never come to you normally.

So what do you think, would you take the break in combat to fire up or wait till you have a mountain of Taliban bodies and then get REALLY baked?

Not at all.

Yes, the ANA smokes a lot of hash,..and yes if they're working with the british or US army on a mission that wasn't their idea, they will take breaks and sometimes just leave. I've seen it happen personally on numerous occasions.

..and no , I would not

No I wouldn't. You need your witts about you when people are trying to kill you.

if i knew i was safe for like 30 mins i would deffiantely

doitinthewoods said:

Yes, the ANA smokes a lot of hash,..and yes if they're working with the british or US army on a mission that wasn't their idea, they will take breaks and sometimes just leave. I've seen it happen personally on numerous occasions.

..and no , I would not

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The ANA aint exactly known for their reliability. I was reading a book about the SF guys in Afghanistan just weeks after 9/11 and they were working with the Northern Alliance guys. One thing that started causing problems was that the NA fighters would fight during the day and then leave alllllllllllllllll the land they just gained for home when the sun went down. They were basically fighting over the same plot of land day after day because the Taliban would just move in and take it back at night.

matthew said:

The ANA aint exactly known for their reliability. I was reading a book about the SF guys in Afghanistan just weeks after 9/11 and they were working with the Northern Alliance guys. One thing that started causing problems was that the NA fighters would fight during the day and then leave alllllllllllllllll the land they just gained for home when the sun went down. They were basically fighting over the same plot of land day after day because the Taliban would just move in and take it back at night.

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so those one dudes were smoking indica hash and while the got sleepy the taliban stayed up on some crystal meth and took that shit back lol

its not a terrible idea imo, it will relax them for battle, keep them happy and stop battle fatigue.

and if weed causes paranoia as everyone says they will be extra alert.

although I find it hard to be angry when im high so it would sapp your killer instinct.

i think it would be a crazy idea. they don't really need to be relaxed in a firefight, that'll lead to slack moves and that lot. and being paranoid does not mean you're more alert and responsvve to a situation. they might be very "maybe he's there aybe he's behind that rock" but doens't mean it'll give them crazy ablities, personally i'm generally anything but accurate when i am smoking, i tend to assume that things will follow through as i'd like them to, rather than taking the few seconds to evaluate the situation

MediMaryUser said:

so those one dudes were smoking indica hash and while the got sleepy the taliban stayed up on some crystal meth and took that shit back lol

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Taliban don't use any kind of drugs. One book I have about the opium trade says that often just kill junkies and when they find "marijuana addicts" (that means anyone caught smoking) they give you their own version of rehab. It consists of being held in freezing cold ice water naked for half an hour or so after being beaten with rubber hoses.

Needless to say these people are fucking insane.

matthew said:

So what do you think, would you take the break in combat to fire up or wait till you have a mountain of Taliban bodies and then get REALLY baked?

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I'll take option number two, for all the reasons listed above. I'd bake for a few weeks on a very clean, warm beach and wash away my sins with surf and sun.

I play COD4 10 times better when I am stoned. Maybe that would parlay into some real life headshots while stoned.

I thought speed was the drug of choice for soldiers.

tnrtinr said:

I play COD4 10 times better when I am stoned. Maybe that would parlay into some real life headshots while stoned.

I thought speed was the drug of choice for soldiers.

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yes because its in and out your system much faster than.. marijuana!

MexicanWarlord420 said:

yes because its in and out your system much faster than.. marijuana!

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I thought it was because they could stay alert longer and have more energy.

Pile up the body count first. Too nice baked and would get killed for passing a joint to the wrong person lol. Give me some meth from back in the day and I could kill anything without my consious ever bothering me. How can the ANA guys do this and live at all Id push them to the front of the line for sure dumb-asses.

cali-high said:

if i knew i was safe for like 30 mins i would deffiantely

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Yeah me too, not during combat but in between I would.

I would most definitely blaze in combat... makes me more alert and sharper. Only con is that my hands would shake for them long shots.

i only function properly when high . it seems to slow down my thought process to a speed in which i can here myself think , whereas if i dont thoughts fly through my head so fast i cant pick the one that seems to make the most sense

nope cant say i would

i smoked in iraq although i was not taking a reload break in the middle of a fire fight but it was definantly nice laying out under the stars in a bombed out bunker in the middle of al anbar provence blazed outta my mind