[taxcontrol]

Ohhh yes, I just loved the dying cockroach. I even came up with the "supported" dying cockroach. Same thing but holding your backpack :-)

My other "instrutional exercise" for gas attacks was the spin and drop. Since gas is very disorienting and makes you want to puke, I would have the troop spin in place as fast as he could and then drop, recover, and repeat. Never had a troop last 10 min before they left the lunch in the dirt.

Got lots of other instrutional exercises I use as well. To this day, I drop my kids as my "first level" of punishment if they are not behaving. It works especially great if their friends are around. ;-D

My wife says that it is mean but you know what? There is not a single kid in my whole Church that gives me any trouble. I dropped my kid for running inside the Church, right in front of ALL the kids. Now when they see me, they straighten RIGHT up.

[biblewonk]

The spin and drop sounds rough. Our platoon sarg used to say "You want to get ate up with the dumb sh*ts I got some things for yer ass that'll nightmares!!"

I tried dropping kids in Awanas once and it didn't work very well. They screwed around too much and got noisier. I probably should have experimented with it a little more.

Having 8 kids I do tend to sound an awful lot like a drill sergeant. I hate repeating things so they get them pretty strong the first time.