Army Ordered To Stop Taking Anti-malarial Drug Linked To Brain Damage

[atilla]

Lol..spend a minimum of 20 days in the jungle and you'll know why going commando is best..still commando to this day. I have my old friend, the unidentified fungus, on my feet.. Hate the jungle.

 

[Sarg]

Plain old Air Force and had crotch rot and toe fungus I'd thought would never go away after I got back. Crotch rot went away when I moved out to dry Arizona. Fungus faded away if I changed socks every day.

Man, there was shit over there that scared the hell out of ya'. Vike, was there really a Syphlus (spell check won't work) where guys were not allowed to come home? Or was that B.S?

Sarg

 

[Friday]

(Never wear underwear or piss when you are in the water in the jungle. Leeches love to feel that warmth. They will crawl right up your pee hole. Women especially, take note.)

ROFLMAO :ROFLMAO: Prolly a damn good thing I was in a different jungle. I deep-sea-divers-best-friend every single damn time we hit running water just to save time. Well, that and I was a SAR swimmer originally & that's ocean-protocol, not that we were usually worried about staying warm in the pestilential croc infested motherf*cking swamps. Christ, I hate swamps. Hate. Loathe. Despise. Every time Id take another job in a swamp I'd be swearing at myself the whole damn time.

But that was a funny memory, pissing in rivers and stagnant standing nastiness. Had some of the guys going for awhile... Lowlands before we hit the mountains. Ain't eating enough to shit more than once a week, in water to your waist or pits half the damn day, and no copasquat on the move? Yah, man. I'm f*cking bionic. Ain't too bright, some sorts. Fun, though. ;) We hit leeches sometimes, but never too bad, and I think I was too stank. Thought I was already dead maybe? No blood to suck? I'm still kinda sickly curious what they feel like. Put maggots in open wounds, tho, and that feels like puking so I think I can live with the curiosity.

Rubbing coca leaves on most fungus will kill it. Even better, though, it numbs it first!

 

[Friday]

commando is best..still commando to this day

Snicker. Yeah. Will put on all kinds of lacy pretty shazaam knickers for sex... But if I'm wearing them? I'd better be getting laid sometime soon. Some of the T & Gstrings & cheekies aren't too bad, but there's no way in hell I'm wearing them for more than a few hours tops. Can't stand most for more than a few minutes.

Always funny listening to conversations in church, or the PTA, or whatnot. I just smile and say nothing. Jeans or sheathe dresses, for real. Underwear ain't happening. If I have to wear something floaty or short, underarmor works.

 

[vikingr24]

Plain old Air Force and had crotch rot and toe fungus I'd thought would never go away after I got back. Crotch rot went away when I moved out to dry Arizona. Fungus faded away if I changed socks every day.

Man, there was shit over there that scared the hell out of ya'. Vike, was there really a Syphlus (spell check won't work) where guys were not allowed to come home? Or was that B.S?

Sarg

Sarge,

If you were in Thailand, and I recall you were, as was I off and on, you qualify for the official crotch rot award. Congrats.

I never saw a case of what we called "black syphilis" required to stay until cured. Must qualify that I was early going over for most who went and most of duties were SAR and cross border ops. But I did see some syph that was really antibiotic resistant. We did not have anything stronger than erythromycin and that was really not appropriate for STD's. Cipro and Septra was not available then. Tetracycline (vibromycin) was also used just to confuse the bugs but didn't do very well except for urinary tract infections. Penicillin killed it but many, including me, were allergic. Often we did not care about the allergy and went ahead with penicillin treatment. Sludge could probably tell us more about the interaction of various strains of mold that fight STD's. It is fascinating to read how some drugs were invented.

I would understand if someone was confined for a while just to make sure they did not advance to tertiary syphilis. There is a period of its development where it is not easy to diagnose. The first sign of syph is a chancre somewhere in the genital area, pain when pissing, blood in the urine, peritoneal (lower belly) pain and a positive Wassermann blood test, among others. You know you have a tertiary case when the eyebrows fall away and hands that form a knuckle have a pronounced whiteness to the bone. While you are in any stage you can spread the disease.

I think the "black syphilis" issue was caused by the rumor mill but again, I was not there when advanced cases became prevalent. I can tell you that infection control in 'Nam was a practical impossibility. Some of the cases where we had to amputate because the soldier was in the jungle and could not be evacuated, are memories I carry. A soldier who pulled a gun at the aid station and threatened to kill you or him when we wanted to amputate was not uncommon.

What troubled me the most was I would lecture these guys about STD treatment and recognition and mostly prevention, and they would ignore me. I could even predict who would catch it when they went to Bangkok on leave.

 

[Sarg]

Thanks, Vike! You know how the rumor mill churned them out. Bangkok still has big problems according to the news. Damn glad I came back with all my "parts".

Sarg

 

[atilla]

They told us about the "Black Clap" in Korea...no going home if you caught that shit..lol