Ole Cowboy
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Drug use is the dirty little secret of war. The NVA/VC used it heavily and in my time in I/II Corp 67-68 I saw very little of it and when I did it was very limited...( I will admit I had never heard of and had not any idea what it was other than the smell which I have always found to be sickening sweet. I have smoked in my life).
Damien Spleeters of Conflict Armament Research recently posted this photograph on his Twitter feed of a 7.62x39mm Chinese Type 81 LMG that was recovered among an entire cache of Type 81s after the battlefor Mosul.
We had some Easter eggs in the @conflictarm ISIS report (http://www.conflictarm.com/download-file/?report_id=2568&file_id=2574 …). Stuff we keep investigating. Here’s one: We documented 183 Chinese MGs, each with 2 to 3 small pouches attached to them, filled with amphetamine.
Although the presence of Chinese Type 81s is of interest by itself, of particular note here is the fact that CAR documented the presence of amphetamine filled packets that were attached to the machine gun. Not only were the packets attached to a single machine gun, but in fact to every Type 81 found in the weapons cache. The majority appeared to have three packets tied to the barrel just below the gas tube, the trigger guard, and the buttstock. Upon reaching out to Damien, there hasn’t been a definite conclusion on exactly what type of amphetamine is in the packet (pending lab analysis), but it is conclusive that the powderinside is an intoxicating substance. In an earlier CAR report on weapons of the Islamic State, there was a photograph published of the cache with the packets attached to them, but no further information was included.
Drug use is the dirty little secret of war. The NVA/VC used it heavily and in my time in I/II Corp 67-68 I saw very little of it and when I did it was very limited...( I will admit I had never heard of and had not any idea what it was other than the smell which I have always found to be sickening sweet. I have smoked in my life).
Damien Spleeters of Conflict Armament Research recently posted this photograph on his Twitter feed of a 7.62x39mm Chinese Type 81 LMG that was recovered among an entire cache of Type 81s after the battlefor Mosul.
We had some Easter eggs in the @conflictarm ISIS report (http://www.conflictarm.com/download-file/?report_id=2568&file_id=2574 …). Stuff we keep investigating. Here’s one: We documented 183 Chinese MGs, each with 2 to 3 small pouches attached to them, filled with amphetamine.
Although the presence of Chinese Type 81s is of interest by itself, of particular note here is the fact that CAR documented the presence of amphetamine filled packets that were attached to the machine gun. Not only were the packets attached to a single machine gun, but in fact to every Type 81 found in the weapons cache. The majority appeared to have three packets tied to the barrel just below the gas tube, the trigger guard, and the buttstock. Upon reaching out to Damien, there hasn’t been a definite conclusion on exactly what type of amphetamine is in the packet (pending lab analysis), but it is conclusive that the powderinside is an intoxicating substance. In an earlier CAR report on weapons of the Islamic State, there was a photograph published of the cache with the packets attached to them, but no further information was included.