Sunday, February 23, 2014

DRUGS ON MAERSK SHIP WHERE TWO FORMER SEALs DIED

This is the follow-on Maersk Alabama story to this week's earlier story about the Captain Phillips ship . . .


. . . word came over the secret Special Forces unauthorized back channel freq these guys were using heroin:

These days horse is cheap and easy to come by, it's coming back in the younger circle. It's not like the old tar heroin that had to be cooked down, it's being processed different . . . inject, snort, smoke, what ever makes you happy; the majority are snorting it now. Most likely these guy's shit was "too pure" and they OD'd. Also some is mixed with coke or other chemicals to make speed balls the same as what killed John Belushi and Chris Farley.

The stuff is shockingly common. A colleague reports his brother - a banker at a large, well-known bank - is a user! Apparently, for some people taking a shot of heroin is about like having a daily gin and tonic.

I say you have to be crazy to go near that shit. Heroin is nothing like scotch or gin. Heroin turns people into the lowest kind of life form imaginable who only care about their next fix and will do anything to get it - to include ripping off their own family.


Another retired SFer reports on his first job in Iraq, a fixed site security gig at a small isolated site with no Big Army close by. He had two ex-SEAL heroes there; one was a zit-covered steroid-raging musclehead, the other a drug addict. They would break into the clinic at night and steal syringes, needles and narcs. He had to then keep the narcs on his person 24/7 to stop them, hid the needles and syringes too. When they broke in one night and came up empty handed, in retaliation they emptied cups of dip spit all over his rack. Some seriously dangerous scumbags; one a berserker jacked on steroids and the other on heroin and of course everyone was armed.

If I become aware of that shit being used on any team I'm on, that's it, that individual is PNG'd for life. There is absolutely no room in my left & right limits for illicit narcotics, none whatsoever. You simply cannot trust a drug addict. I even look at a guy real hard depending on what kind of prescription drugs he's on; I have a buddy who's on so many (legitimate) pharmaceuticals - treating everything from pain from HALO injuries and war wounds to PTSD - that he is walking around sedated and for all practical purposes he is non-deployable. These days I don't even take Ambien.

STORMBRINGER SENDS

12 comments:

  1. This ought knock the SEALs chrome-plated barrel chested Freedom Fighter Best-of-the-Best-of-the-Best-of-the-Best propaganda down a couple of notches!

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  2. Sean, you speak the truth, perhaps a bit understated at that. I tried a bunch of that crap when I was young and stupid (that's why they call it "dope") and settled on some booze and ciggies and coffee. When the booze got too big in me I quit that too, twenty-seven years ago. I sure don't miss it. The ciggies, well that's an on again/off again thing, mostly off unless I come across some fine Dutch shag ... and the coffee got tossed, now it's some strong black tea in the morning and done.

    It is interesting how I can feel the effects of any drug (I include nicotine and caffeine) on my body. When the doc prescribed Vicodin for my Multiple Myeloma, I started cutting the pills in half. That shit will make me silly and I don't need silly. Even a cuppa will give me a jolt and the occasional cigarette gives me a buzz. I know, some guys enjoy a beer or six or a couple shots of single-malt and I say, good on ya. As I am getting on in age I do not need any impairment. It is hard enough keeping what edge I have; I'm not gonna handicap myself.

    Cheers, mate. Hoist one for me.

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  3. Look up gabapentin and see what that stuff does.

    Lazarus Long

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  4. were they using or did someone dose them?

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    1. I was wondering about that too...

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  5. We went through this shit in the late 60s-early70s. I'd really not rather go through it again. There used to be a mandatory semi-annual drug test for everyone in the PRP. Looks like we need to bring that back, which is really too bad. I'd truly hoped we'd see the last of that shit.

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  6. Not surprised since they both died at the same time.

    - Viking Mia

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