Comments on: Thinking outside the box

By: Diamondback

Diamondback — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:14:07 +0000

Yeah I remember this story from cockeyed a year ago. Yep still got a link in favorites to it.

Heartless Libertarian — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:52:07 +0000

The silly string thing has been around for a while. I think I first heard of it during the second Fallujah campaign.

Standard Mischief — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:59:51 +0000

from the article:

In other cases of battlefield improvisation in Iraq, … Medics use tampons to plug bullet holes in the wounded until they can be patched up.

Yup, that’s a pretty old trick. While not sterile, they are clean, cheap and designed to absorb blood.

I keep a few feminine pads in my backpacking first aid kit for this reason.

Standard Mischief — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:51:36 +0000

This was on cockeyed.com a bit ago, but got promptly pulled by request. Someone suggested that we did not want to give our secrets to the insurgents.

Current Cockeyed:

Nov 2005 cache at archive.org:

I suppose now Rob can put it back up with pictures. At least we can’t blame this one on You-Tube or Google.