What we were really scattering in those simulated chemical attacks
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Don't ask me who was on Question Time last night. However, I can quite happily discuss the use of Dipropylene Glycol Monomethyl Ether for use to aid chemical agent simulation all day long.
Not happily maybe.
Not happily maybe.
ISTR a case or cases over the "Common Cold" trials
The immediate reaction of certain of our SNCO Rock Instructors rang loud alarm bells........
The New York subway and the London Tube were favourites for bacterial and virus propagation trials. By dropping a flask usually in the shape of a lightbulb at a station they could detect how far the subject pathogen travelled over a number of days.
Wow, first post after lurking for so long. Back in the day at Gutersloh I had on top of my cabinet a piece if shattered Harrier canopy for training purpose. I had a visit from a Flt Lt who often acted as DS on exercise. He had been informed that nerve agent would craze an aircraft canopy; with that announcement he produced a bottle of Wintergreen oil. This is a similar colour and consistency as nerve agent he said, and continued to pour some onto the piece of canopy. I was left with instruction to monitor the effect of the agent on the canopy and report back. True, I promise. No amount of argument would convince him that Wintergreen is not Sarin, this an engineering officer too. Well it did have an effect, I got stick for making the office stink like a dodgy massage parlour.
In later years I was involved in clearing mustard gas storage sites which would throw up the occasional 10lb Ground Bomb which was indeed used for training, but that was before H&S spoiled the fun.
In later years I was involved in clearing mustard gas storage sites which would throw up the occasional 10lb Ground Bomb which was indeed used for training, but that was before H&S spoiled the fun.