Who comes up with this stuff?

[Kyobanim]

I wonder who they would have tested this one on if it was approved?

Pentagon Spurned Plan to Initiate Enemy Homosexuality

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050116/us_nm/arms_homosexual_dc

By Jim Wolf

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military rejected a 1994 proposal to develop an "aphrodisiac" to spur homosexual activity among enemy troops but is hard at work on other less-than-lethal weapons, defense officials said on Sunday.



The idea of fostering homosexuality among the enemy figured in a declassified six-year, $7.5 million request from a laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio for funding of non-lethal chemical weapon research.


The proposal, disclosed in response to a Freedom of Information request, called for developing chemicals affecting human behavior "so that discipline and morale in enemy units is adversely affected."


"One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior," said the document, obtained by the Sunshine Project. The watchdog group posted the partly blacked-out, three-page document on its Web site.


Lt. Col. Barry Venable of the Army, a Defense Department spokesman, said: "This suggestion arose essentially from a brainstorming session, and it was rejected out of hand."


The Air Force Research Laboratory also suggested using chemicals that could be sprayed on enemy positions to attract stinging and biting bugs, rodents and larger animals.


Another idea involved creating "severe and lasting halitosis" to help sniff out fighters trying to blend with civilians.


The U.S. military remains committed to developing less-than-lethal weapons that pass stringent legal reviews and are consistent with international treaties, said Captain Dan McSweeny of the Marine Corps, a spokesman for the Pentagon (news - web sites) unit spearheading their introduction.


"We feel it's very important to offer our deployed service members and their commanders a greater range of options in dealing with increasingly complex operational environments," said McSweeny, of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate.

[Team Sergeant]

I wonder who they would have tested this one on if it was approved?

Pentagon Spurned Plan to Initiate Enemy Homosexuality

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050116/us_nm/arms_homosexual_dc



Already tested and it works just fine, just ask anyone in San Francisco.

[Airbornelawyer]

The document in question: http://www.sunshine-project.org/incapacitants/jnlwdpdf/wpafbchem.pdf

[Denny]

Wow that triggered a good laugh. Shared that with my fellow soldiers in the S-2 office. Those ideas sound like something I could come up with after a few in me. :rolleyes:

[Kyobanim]

Those ideas sound like something I could come up with after a few in me. :rolleyes:

Considering the subject matter, I'm not even going to touch that one.

[BMT (RIP)]

Looking at AL link looks asthough Wright Patterson AFB worked on this project.

BMT

[Jack Moroney (RIP)]

You would be surprised at what goes on. It would take me days to list all the technology looking for a mission I have dealt with over the years. There are folks out there that see the DOD as a large piggy bank to be tapped and unfortunately there are no shortage of idiots within the DOD that will sponsor their ideas.

At one time, when I was little, they were looking for a SF major to attend a conference titled, "Limited and Unconventional Warfare". That alone should tell you something because Unconventional Warfare is conducted across the entire spectrum of conflict. Anyway this thing consisted of a brain trust of PhDs in various fields all touting their "ideas" on how to wage their, and I put the emphasis on the word "their", definition of this type of conflict. Many of the ideas were rediculous and most were technological efforts in need of continued funding with greater application to civilian needs than to military. These folks, who had never heard a shot fired in anger, where playing with concepts without any regard to the lethality of the environment. Now I know you will probably find this hard to believe, but I was a lot more tactful in those days, but I had had it. I finally raised my hand and identified myself even though I was wearing cammies. I thought it was necessary because with everything I was hearing I was sure that many of them had no idea what a soldier did and probably thought I was a duck hunter that came in to get warm. When I was recognized I defined for them just what Unconventional Warfare was and that it was conducted across the spectrum of conflict. The affected reply from the podium was, "Major we are talking about limited conflict here where casualties are expected to be light". So being the tactful individual I was I replied, "Doctor if I came up there right now and stuffed the barrel of a Makarov up your nostril I think, even though I was using only a pistol and you were going to the only casualty of our limited conflict, your idea of casualties and limited warfare would take on an entirely different meaning!! You learned "combatants" need to focus on how your technology will enhance missions and not how the soldier is going to enhance you military contracts!" Their was a hushed silence but I am not sure it was because of the actual comment; it may have been my use of one or two the adjectives I might have uttered and did not repeat above. Anyway, I got up to leave and the head muck who had been sitting in the back of the room intercepted me and asked me if I would mind chairing a discussion group over lunch with the heads of this conference so that I could bring them back to reality. The lunch "hour" lasted for a long gruelling three hours. While they were all polite they saw me as a threat to their pocket books and research agendas.

Jack Moroney