Comments by "SonsOfLorgar" (@SonsOfLorgar) on "Tasting History with Max Miller"
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@TastingHistory regarding the essentiality of coffee and other stimulants in armed forces, there is a story from the Swedish KFOR contingent where they alledgedly had been without snus for a whole week. Swedish snus is fermented and flavoured ground up and moisturised tobacco, used by stuffing a pre-made bag or self-packed pillow of it under the upper lip and much preferred among conscripts and officers as it, unlike smoked tobacco, does not reveal your position with a suicidally glowing ember.
Either way, the comissary of the base ran out of it, and a week later, the base got notified that the next shipment was on a UN marked truck currently illegally blocked by a Serbian border checkpoint, the checkpoint commander demanding a bribe to let it pass.
As the news got around, it reached the captain of the Swedish contingent stationed there, a mechanised company, over 80% of them heavy users...
As such, to prevent a direct mutiny, the Captain formulated a mission and asked for volounteers to escort the supply truck back to base.
There were too many volounteers, so he took one platoon, loaded them up in four Pbv302 (APCs) and set off.
As they arrived, he informed the checkpoint commander of his desire to have the truck let through immediately.
As the checkpoint commander insisted on his bribe first, the Captain proceeded to let the four APCs, line up their 20mm autocannons on the checkpoint and instead explain to the Serbian commander that he and his soldiers had been without nicotine for over a week, the next delivery was on that truck, and the instruction to let it pass was not a request, there wouldn't be any bribes, and that the checkpoint commander better think over his next decision veeery carefully...
Turned out, discretion was the better part of valour, "diplomacy" won and only egos were bruised that day😁
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