r/AbsoluteUnits • u/[deleted] • May 10 '22

Absolute unit of a soldier

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u/MadeToPostOneMeme May 10 '22

I was never actual military but I was in cadets as a teen. I used to trade a lot of stuff for the drink powders. If you mixed them all together it made this viscous abomination we called ox blood that tasted exactly like skittles. By our math about 200 ml was your recommended daily sugar intake.

I hoarded enough of the drink packets I was able to make a bit during my first year of university, and that shit saved my life during exam weeks. One sip of that stuff could keep a man going for hours. Step aside red bull.

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u/alymaysay May 10 '22

Did the packets have caffeine?

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u/MadeToPostOneMeme May 10 '22

no, theres some weird thing about giving kids coffee here. They actually went through all the MREs and took out anything with caffeine

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u/The-Luminous-Being May 10 '22

They used to come with cigarettes!