Differant millitary trivia...

correct!
now your turn, sticks!

Hrmmm I'm gonna have too think about this one!

Ok thinking done!

This one is kinda outside the box, but very important when you consider any ground actions in the Middle East or East Africa.

What is the name of the chewable herb/drug used by insurgents in East Africa and the Middle East. In some sever cases it has been said that the users of this drug have survived as many as 9 shots of 5.56. The affects of this drug are similar too heroine, as the user hallucinates and gains almost super human strength.

Must be the correct spelling too!

sticks

Uber Pot!

just kidding.

hmmm....
let me think....

Opium?

Nope its not opium, good guess though!

sticks

Ohh, oh oh. I think I've got it.

*reaches for book*



KHAT! Ha! To quote Nate Fick's book One Bullet Away

"Mogadishu, brother. You aint seen s**t if you aint been to the Mog. Skinny little f*****s running all over the place. Stoned outta their f*****g heads on that leaf they chew. Khat, they call it. Makes them get crazy and shoot a lot. Stay away from the walls. Bullets travel along the walls."

Panic wins!

Khat is the name of that o so deadly drug that everyone from junkies too crazed insurgents. Its legal in most country's in the EU and a few asian country's as well. Fortunately its illegal in the US.

Your turn!

sticks

Alright, this'll be a toughie, but you Generation Kill guys should love it

When 2nd Platoon, First Reconnaissance Battalion first reached Sadr City, a slum to the north of Baghdad in the first week of the war in Iraq, the village elders had only two requests. Clean water and WHAT?

this is just a WAG here, i can't remember, but...

books?

I thought it was security, as in stop the violence and looting.... I could be wrong though, maybe that was a different episode. But I thought they guys were complaining about how the USMC was running everyone on "shifts" instead of letting them embed and take care of the situations at hand.

sticks

wait! you guys never said what EGAD was an acronym for! or did you? head slap me if im wrong

no, we didn't.

HEAD SLAP YOU ANYWAY!

ewwww, that sounds nasty

EGAD: Electronic Ground Automatic Destruct, aka like a claymore remote?
or
EGAD: Evaluation Group for Analysis of Data

I had too actually look those up, found them on a govt&mil site. I could be way off though, those are the current terms in use. If its anything old school I'm definitely wrong!

I'm still generally interested with the other question though!

sticks

Nope, neither. I've got a hint for you though:


Multiple items, constructed of Bronze.
(I meant for my question )


And EGAD: Its not an acronym, its a way of taking the Lord's name in vain without being stopped by the filter!

part of it is correct... EGADS is an acronym for Electronic Ground Automatic Destruct System. but what is it used for?

Electronic Ground Automatic Destruct System

Is used to destruct a missle in flight.

And it is an acronym panic, sorry.


Just a stab in the dark here,

They asked for Clean Water and Bullets

Nope, not bullets either. (yeah, i knew it was an acronym. it was a weak attempt at a witty remark)

Quote :

I knew my answer was wrong as soon as I sent it, bullet casings are Brass not Bronze ( M05 to be exact )

correct Slob

Alright, so the answer to my question IS:


The occupants of Sadr City requested clean water and Bronze statues of George W. Bush to put up around town and show loyalty to their new leader.

Just goes to show that Fact `` IS ´´ stranger than Fiction

Next question Please.

Next question will come once I'm back from X-Fit in about an hour and a half.




EDIT: Alrighty then. Question time.



At the Battle of the Crater during the American Civil War, how much explosive was used in the Union Mine, what type of explosive was used, and how many days did it take to build the mine?

large course blasting powder, in 25 pound barrels
320 barrels of gunpowder = 8000 pounds or 4 tons
Counting the start and completion days it took 33 days.