Tell Me what i want to know please.

[Size-more]

Here's the deal; seventh week in ; 15 other guys includeing myself and one female are in the Co-op program and are getting "rushed" through our BMQ/SQ which is great, i have no problems infact this is the best experience of my life, but there is one thing that is bothering me; the gas hut, i need to know what it is in every detail not just what the SGT and Warrent tell us; thing like youll lose more fluids than youll know what to do with or that it wont kill you, To this point i have the mentality that the CF gas going to make me leak and hold me to the brink of destruction. I need to know more about it, not because im nervious but because i want to know what i will be dealing, and is there anyway to combat the gas so i come out looking better than i did going in ?

Thanks a lot

Pte. Seiler

 

[Ex-Dragoon]

Relax....its not as bad as you think, at worse you will hack up a lung, your mask will be filled with snot and you will be teary eyed, you can get through it.

 

[aesop081]

and is there anyway to combat the gas so i come out looking better than i did going in ?

Do the drills like they show you..........simple enough ?

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[infamous_p]

It's not a poisonous gas, don't worry too much about it. I believe it is simply tear gas (correct me if I'm wrong) which makes your eyes, skin, and sinuses burn like hell. Like Ex-Dragoon said, it will make you tear up to the point where you can barely see, snot will be pouring all over the place, and you'll hack a HELL of a lot if you decide to ignore the drills and take a big gulp of it inside the gas hut. The whole point of the exercise is to test if you can execute the NBC drills effectively WHILE under the pressure of a gas that does... well, hurt... if you don't do the drills correctly.

 

[infamous_p]

Imagine eating some 911 wings and getting shampoo in your eye...it's nothing.

Very well put - it's just like eating a pound of suicide wings without water. You know how suicide wings make your eyes and nose run? Same thing.

 

[aesop081]

enough

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