Gotta love those military minds!

[gajinoz]

Heard an interesting interview while listening to Radio National this morning. Seems the American airforce has been looking into non lethal chemical weapons. Here are a couple of their ideas.

1. A chemical that turns the enemy soldiers into drug addicts. Well, OK, probably sounds reasonable until you think about it for a bit.

2. A chemical that turns enemy soldiers into homosexuals. No, I'm not kidding!

3. A chemical that gives your enemy bad breath. No, not kidding here either!

Now, I neither know nor care what your opinion of people who are homosexual and/or have bad breath is, but I'd be very surprised to hear they can't shoot as well as anyone else.

Nothing like a good chuckle in the morning!

 

[Triton]

You missed some of the other ones. There was one to attract angry bees to an area, and another to attract angry rats. The homosexual bomb was supposed to affect morale. I mean if you were a straight guy and had that bombed dropped on you... when you realized what you had been doing I'll bet it WOULD affect your morale.

 

[Gollnick]

3. A chemical that gives your enemy bad breath. No, not kidding here either!

The concept here was to somehow be able to mark combatants on the battle field so that when they tried to blend into a civilian population later, they'd stand out. It's not a bad idea.

 

[gajinoz]

I mean if you were a straight guy and had that bombed dropped on you... when you realized what you had been doing I'll bet it WOULD affect your morale.

I'd probably be as mad as hell and even more determined to shoot the bastards that did it to me!

 

[Esav Benyamin]

Rube Goldberg is alive and well, and working on his Better Living through Chemistry project.

On the other hand, war is heck. What else would you expect military research to develop, better ways of KILLING people? Oh. Yes. Bad breath begins to sound like a viable alternative.

 

[Gollnick]

I think we should just drop bacon grease on the battle field. That's affect their morale.

 

[Gollnick]

Bad breath begins to sound like a viable alternative.

Or at least politically-correct.

 

[oz23]

That gay bomb could seriously backfire, I'm thinking here of the Spartans, who had an army well known for its, uh, close "camerarderie". They didn't give too bad an account of themselves at Thermopylae .
On the other hand, what it you dropped all these weapons at once? who would want to run the risk of being captured by an army of gay drug addicts with bad breath who are probably really pissed off with the killer bees and crazed rats.

 

[tarsier]

On the other hand, what it you dropped all these weapons at once? who would want to run the risk of being captured by an army of gay drug addicts with bad breath who are probably really pissed off with the killer bees and crazed rats.

Good point. Or even worse, maybe this would create crazed killer soldiers, gay rats, and stoned bees.

 

[gajinoz]

Good point. Or even worse, maybe this would create crazed killer soldiers, gay rats, and stoned bees.

..and people say you Americans are crazy buggers who don't know what you're doing!

 

[Perilous Truth]

thats got to be a joke. i dont believe any chemical is goign to turn you gay, its just preposterous

 

[Cougar Allen]

"Lt. Col. Barry Venable of the Army, a Defense Department spokesman, said: "This suggestion arose essentially from a brainstorming session, and it was rejected out of hand."" Details at http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/17/arms.homosexual.reut/index.html

 

[Stockman]

2. A chemical that turns enemy soldiers into homosexuals.

Didn't they test this chemical in Philadelphia ??? I beleive it worked quite well!!

 

[johnniet]

How about a chemical that would turn enemy soldiers into Americans?

 

[oz23]

Maybe the gay bomb has been developed already and tested on Florida's manatee population.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

Maybe the gay bomb has been developed already and tested on Florida's manatee population.

No. That only works when they migrate to northern waters.

 

[Clint Simpson]

I'd probably be as mad as hell and even more determined to shoot the bastards that did it to me!

Angry people (especially men) tend to make stupid mistakes. If he wants to stand in the middle of the street, mad-as-hell, shooting away - let him. It just makes him an easy target.

BTW, the ideas are over 10 years old IIRC and they were "declassified" due to NO ONE taking them seriously.

Everyone knows all the good ideas are TOP SECRET.

 

[TLM]

Now, just remember that US has a habit making their old recce aircraft public when they have the new one operational. They published these I wonder what is in the stock.

TLM

 

[bladefixation2]

1. A chemical that turns the enemy soldiers into drug addicts. Well, OK, probably sounds reasonable until you think about it for a bit.

2. A chemical that turns enemy soldiers into homosexuals. No, I'm not kidding!

3. A chemical that gives your enemy bad breath. No, not kidding here either!

The list of magical chemicals could go on forever, a chemical that turns you inside-out, a chemical that makes you think youre a chicken, a chemical that makes you think youre bulletproof, a chemical that makes you constantly try to eat your own head, a chemical that makes you crave human flesh, or sheep...

 

[mwerner]

Such schemes go back to WWII, at least. I know there was talk in Brit intelligence circles of giving Hitler hormones of some sort to drive him "completely" over the edge....

In Bill Donovan's book on the OSS, he mentions a device which was supposed to shoot a spray of chemical that smelled like S#+t. Literally, feces.
The idea was that the Japanese were intensely private about their bathroom habits, and being "unclean" was a big social no-no. The idea was in occupied areas for some little resistance fighter to sereptitiously squirt smelly-bad on some Japanese officer's trousers, causing him to "loose face".