The U.S. Army Rocks
There’s a lot of good you can say about the Army. They have some good weapons. They have good people serving. They’re arguably the strongest military force in the world. But all of that is for another site. There’s people who know more about it than I care to learn, and they can educate you much better. That, and you probably don’t care what a caffeine website thinks about military discussion.
But caffeine. Oh yeah, you like the caffeine info.
There’s been rumours that the U.S. Army was developing a caffeinated gum to help soldiers stay awake and alert. In fact, the name of the gum is “Stay Alert.” How much caffeine? The Caffeine Database will tell you that it has an awesome 100mg per piece. Since it’s in the database, you can also kill yourself with the new Army UberGum.
For more info, check out the official army.mil release.
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wow this is an interesting site a learned new little facts today besides the way of speech this is a good small resource site!
i thinks that the mericains should get the other three hostages left beofre asnything bad happens to them and id like to make sure canada would help the american army get revenge at iraq for doing such a thing. They killed Tom Fox and we cant afford to lose another person! this madness must stop! iraq needs to pay for this, they may be dangerous but i have courage to the american army and they are better than any other army “am canadian and still have faith for both of our countries were neighbors for life! Peace to us!!!!!
Oh hell yeah, let’s give some tired, strung out deployees high doses of a stimulant so they’ll be twitchy and jumpy as hell, not to mention additional paranoia to augment already ridiculous levels of nervousness one experiences on a mission or in theatre generally…Tweaked troops plus weapons and caffiene gum equals bulletholes in random natives….equals court martials and more blogs by assholes back home saying f the troops and their ‘war crimes’.
Ah well, could be worse. I’m suprised the military doesn’t sneak it to us (wouldn’t that be a fun suprise for those of us with caffiene allergies) like they sneak other crap like that nifty natural estrogen they throw in the eggs in basic training to keep the guys from getting wood….and they says it’s from all the excercise, hahah.
The army strikes again, another bout of pure genious. Well…I’m sure someone will have fun with the stuff… good for them.
geez you’re an idiot larson.
just tried some of these gums and i’m freaking flying.
btw i just love this site, keep the good work, though i think a forum would be a great addition.
For all of your who are dying to try some of this an Amazon group has it up for sale 30 pieces for 6$ not too shabby I say.
http://www.amazon.com/STAY-ALERT-Military-Caffeine-Energy/dp/B000J2LTNQ
Heh, being an older vet, this is almost old news. During the time of the first Gulf War the next generation of MREs were coming out and the goody packet (sugar, Tobasco, creamer, coffee, gum, candy, toilet paper) was becoming all Sanka or Nescafe instant coffee. PITA since we were losing the old nasty instant coffee powder which tasted like crap as coffee, but was decent for caffeine boost mixed with the hot chocolate.
Anyway, it also had the redeeming feature of being such a small amount of fine powder that you could stick it in your cheek for the same effect the doc in the article was talking about, a cup of coffee boost straight into the bloodstream.
That’s crazy, sorta like dipping tobacco except for the caffeine. Sounds like something that could easily be marketable. No spitting necessary. Any chance you can do this with regular coffee or No-Dos?
Just wanted to say your website…is awesome. Very informative and interesting. All while drinking far too much Red Bull, I work for NASA and the caffeine no matter what form is much needed!