This is my weapon, this is my gun....
Officially “no”.. I don’t see how this can help, the side-effect risk would be too high to mess with drugging them.
The military never disseminates disinformation either.
Well this issue used to be easy. Keep all the men separated from the women. No combined training at all. It’s just human nature. Young men that are around young women are going to try and bang the young women.
Now that the gays will be given a free pass soon, this will get worse...
No. But getting up at 0500 and doing physical exercise all day long will make you dream of a sweet bed at 2000 (8 PM) over a your sweet girlfriend...
FYI - This is infantry (all male) basic.
Um, if you get turned on by 50 other guys and four of them screaming at you, you needed leathers and whip, not the military.
LOL, LOL!
When the first thing you hear at 0400 (or earlier) is the sound of a screaming drill sergeant, that is enough to keep the mahogany away all day.
This is my weapon, this is my gun....
They may deny it, but I don’t recall geting a single chubby during basic, but the night of graduation and every night until I reported to my first duty station, I was tapping the bejeezus out of the GF. mornings, too, and a few late mornings and most afternoons, as well.
“I ain’t as good as I once was, but I’m as good once as i ever was. “
Did they also sneak something in the food that prevented people from relaxing enough to defecate for a week?
Basic training is attempting to break you down like a wild animal, nothing you have is your own, you are hunted, berated, busy, keeping your head down. You get so wound up you cannot even defecate, and yet we look for some grand conspiracy and secret drug administration to explain a lack of arousal?
Let us try to keep FreeRepublic from becoming a repository of every kook conspiracy theory out there, eh?
New recruits are probably surprised to find that they have a lack of libido. All the exercise makes them feel more manly, more pumped, and people associate that feeling with libido.
Sometimes it worked!
I don’t think this is true. After three weeks in Basic Training my female Drill Sergeant started looking real good.
My experience in boot camp is that no, the military doesn’t add ‘salt peter’, or anything else to suppress the hormonal state of its recruits.
However, bunking with 81 other guys suppressed my ‘natural state’ well enough.
Of course, I was interested when the female recruit company moved in upstairs (3rd deck) of the battalion I was living in during boot camp (in Orlando, in 1988).
It went haywire when I was asked to stand ‘guard duty’ on their barracks while they in-processed, and I saw them going back and forth to the head in skimpy clothing, and got to walk around the barracks while they were at the medical facility, or getting uniforms, etc.
But, the next few weeks, when it was me and the rest of the guys in CO15/88, my drive was deader than a doornail.