Soldiers Who were Intoxicated in Battle

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Show Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)

[tomfox]

As a pot smoker I can promise you that as soon as the fight started his buzz was gone.

[markr]

My stepdad had a few stories from his tour of Vietnam. One he told was about getting black out drunk one day in Vietnam and waking up the next day in Cambodia. While he was drunk his unit moved into Cambodia.

A few days later he was awarded a Bronze Star for taking out a machinegun nest single handed. He had to ask other in his unit what it was for. He was so drunk, he charged the nest firing his rifle and throwing grenades, "like something out of a John Wayne movie" per his fellow soldiers.

[ryimscaith]

As a veteran, I have a question. There are sober combat soldiers?

[kylejefferson]

A high soldier receives the “HIGHEST” army award 😂

[lukaswilhelm]

In one hand while you high or drunk you could fight to your optimal limit but in the other hand you could also fight like Austrians who lost a retreating battle against themselves while also drunk.

[corymorimacori]

“I might be battling you even though I’m toasted, but tomorrow I’ll be sober and you’ll still be roasted!” Winston Churchill

[NotConsumed]

true friends can cross the fucking earth to give you a beer while you’re at war.
I want a friend like that.

[bbracing]

Peter lemon was in a fog, let's call it a "lemon haze" 😅

[FloridaManFrank]

By the way that fin soldier didn't intentionally take the whole supply of pervatin the pills had melted together as one because of his body heat and he just ate the whole lump of what was a pill and then he tripped mega WW2 balls and when they found him he was like 20 lbs lighter, dehydrated, starving and probably so confused it felt like he was dreaming for 2 weeks

[theskullboy]

Random drunk: what did I miss

Sober soldier: well. After you drank that beer your found by the fridge. You grabbed a sword and just decapitated the entire enemy squad

[cjwilliams]

It’s a small thing, but at the 12:00 mark you make a comparison between adrenaline and methamphetamines. You said unlike adrenaline, methamphetamines don’t affect blood pressure and that is incorrect and potentially very dangerous misinformation.

It should read:
“Adrenaline is short lived and quickly metabolized causing short but high spikes in blood pressure. By contrast, amphetamines and methamphetamines cause a less severe increase in blood pressure while activating the same neurological receptors and is metabolized more slowly.“

It’s not a big mistake. But it’s a small one with the potential to cause an oversized amount of harm.

[nickyboy]

While I was doing missions in the navy I never got caught operating weaponry while drunk.

I did.... I just never got caught.

[wweminehead]

"Die with your hands around the throat of the enemy" Victor Reznov CoD WAW

[tripplesthreat]

Kind of a funny story from where I'm from. During the War of 1812; the first siege of Ft. Meigs. The fort wasn't complete when the British laid siege to the fort. To get the soldiers to finish building the ramparts, the for commander, General Harrison, authorized extra rations of rum to get the soldiers to continue working while being shelled. Guess it really is liquid courage.

[Spartan]

To be fair adrenalin can easily sober you up after smoking bud. I also imagine a gunfight would be quick to sober one up as well. I know for sure adrenaline can sober you up fast as I've experienced it first hand lol.

[AutonomousVII]

Some fellow vets I know are still battling meth addiction from being given amphetamines in Vietnam. They were issued big bottles of speed each month and getting a new bottle because someone “lost” theirs was a common occurrence. When they got back to the states they would either keep up with the amphetamines or move onto meth. The fact that they were treated like filth when they got home didn’t help at all either.

[PerceptionsProphet]

Man got so high he went to an award ceremony in another country

[MiniUsyk]

Pvt Bill Speakman, VC, Korean War. Threw beer bottles at enemy when ran out of ammo.

[Btch]

Weed from the jungle was nothing like the stuff available nowadays... Fermented beverages were the safer drink for thousands of years (water, not so much)

[vincedibona]

It is said that on that day, whilst most of the troops were on maybe one marijuana, Sgt. Lemon had taken at least 3, and maybe even 4, marijuanas.