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Heimann47

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  1. Ha! I'm not on that website.
  2. Songs with non-USA cities in the title. Might be a little difficult. April in Paris - Billie Holliday Budapest - Jethro Tull Copacabana - Barry Manilow D E F G How London Got Its Fog - From A Second Story Window I J K London's Calling - Clash Midnight in Moscow--Kenny Ball N O Paris is Burning - Dokken Q R S T U Vienna - Billy Joel W X Y Z
  3. That reminded me of one other point I left out- It felt like my ears were being ground away with 5-grit sandpaper. That didn't let up until I awoke the next morning.
  4. Nobody, and not at all. It's a part of the Non-lethal weapons course I'm currently going through. My Lieutenant had a comment about the OC that I rather liked. "I don't have to get shot to qualify with a pistol, so why should we get sprayed with this sh*t?" The actual reason was so we could learn to maneuver and fight while in pain and at a disadvantage to our opponent. There are countless videos on YouTube. Just search "OC Spray" and you will find all sorts of different reactions to this liquid hell. Side note- most of the courses that you will see people going through are for Military Police training, and last on average 3-4 minutes. Our course (NOT an MP course) took about 10 minutes. That's another 6-7 minutes with this stuff in your eyes before you get a chance to get any sort of relief. Unless the OC you have is different, the kind I got made it almost impossible to cough, let alone breathe, and not out of shock or panic. It actually constricts your chest once it is inhaled. He may not have gone through the course. It's not a requirement for every Marine. And by the way, MC, replace your batteries! Trust me, dead batteries make everything a pain in the ass. (Every try to find your way around a line of Howitzers at 2 AM with no moon and a dead flashlight?) Besides, my burning was non-lethal. I'd hate to learn of a Songfactor's lethal burning.
  5. Two words; Oleoresin Capsicum. Otherwise known as OC spray. It's like pepper spray if pepper spray could do steroids. A little comparison: Standard pepper spray has an artificial heat rating of about 1 million to 2 million SHU (Scoville Heat Units), where as OC has a rating of 5.3 Million SHU. A Habanero pepper is rated at 300,000 SHU. A few of the effects- Upon contact with the eyes, it causes them to dry out almost instantly, forcing the eyelids to close, and making it it almost impossible (and EXTREMELY painful) to open them. There is a constant, extremely intense burning sensation of the eyes, and it feels like there is sand in there, which would make one's first reaction to rub them. WRONG! That only pushes is deeper under your eyelids. "Well, just rinse it out, moron. That would be the obvious thing to do." That is the obvious thing to do. Again, it is the wrong thing to do. The OC I was sprayed with is water-based. Guess what that means? Water only makes is worse. The Army uses oil-based OC, which isn't exactly a good idea seeing as OC is a non-lethal munition. If someone is under the influence of drugs or alcohol, they might not feel the full effects of the OC, which would lead some people to switch to a weapon that will put anybody down- a Taser. Wanna know what happens when a person covered in an oil-based liquid has a high electric current running through them? They start on fire. Aside from the burning in the eyes, it also causes extreme pain in any skin that it touches. The effects last different amounts of time depending on the person, but the for me, I experienced about 30-45 minutes of being almost completely unable to open my eyes, then about an hour of being able to open my eyes, with very high sensitivity to light and a very high level of pain, then another 2-3 hours of high pain, with decreased light sensitivity, followed by about six hours of pain, with light sensitivity gradually returning to normal throughout. Note that during this time, my eyes were still as dry as a bone. as a matter of fact, I got sprayed at about 2:00 PM on Wednesday, and when I woke up at 5:30 Thursday morning, my eyes were still dry. The dryness lasts about 24 hours. Long story short- it was quite possibly the worst pain I have ever felt in my life, and that is not an exaggeration.
  6. As a matter of fact, there isn't even a 'Friends' category. It just says '206 People Like This' and has 6 thumbnails of various SongFactors.
  7. Apparently, I'm somewhat of a fool. Either I can't see the 'View All' link under the friends category, or it's not there...
  8. Album/CD with only one word name -Godsmack Named masterpiece (painting, sculpture, etc.) -Goethe's Faust Something you love -Girlfriend Profession -Geologist Name of a book -Guns, Germs, And Steel Same Cats; S
  9. Album/CD with only one word name -Godsmack Named masterpiece (painting, sculpture, etc.) -Goethe's Faust Something you love -Girlfriend Profession -Geologist Name of a book -Guns, Germs, And Steel Same Cats; S
  10. Forsaken - As I Lay Dying Mirrors - Between The Buried And Me Just Another Pretty Face - Bleeding Through The Red - Chevelle If I ever Leave This World Alive - Flogging Molly These Lights Above Us - From A Second Story Window An Aptly Fictional Description - The Number Twelve Looks Like You No One Knows - Queens Of The Stone Age
  11. Top ten things you'll never send a mother on Mother's Day . . . 10. her ex-husband 9. Her ex-husband's new wife 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1
  12. For artillery, 155mm, mortars is 120mm, if I'm not mistaken. Being the size that they are, the 120mm mortars have essentially lost the only thing that separates them from artillery- they are no longer man-portable.
  13. Try all day. FIELD Artillery is kinda useless when you're not in the field. Which is where I've been lately, in case anybody's been wondering.
  14. I'll give you the same advice the squid docs give us; water, Motrin, and a change of socks. Best wishes to you.
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