This is good for a chuckle.
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 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 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.
It all seems rather silly, but it’s good to know the folks in defense are putting some creative skullsweat into their efforts.
I wonder, however, had we developed the homosexual aphrodisiac weapon, what would the ramifications be on Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell in a friendly-fire incident?
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The Gay Gas Weapon is probably the ill-thought out brainstorming of the famous husband and wife contractor team who the DoD uses sometimes for non-leathal R&D. This was proposed at WPAFB in the very conservative right southwestern Ohio!
The whole idea is based on old Russian pheromone technology. The KGB found a way to “mark” potential spies at airports by spraying them with female grasshopper pheromones (sexual attractants). Then undercover field operatives would have a male cricket in a matchbox. When the so-marked spy was sneaking around or acting suspicous around the target site some unseen bum or hobo with a male cricket would be informed that this particular person was marked for further observation. Well you can imagine how this would literally kill a black operation.
So, in the “genius” of the R&D folks, they think if you spray one man with massive amounts of human female pheromones (i.e. urine extract) that somewhow any latent homosexuality in his mind will be brought to the fore “big time”. The only so-called enemy that would be humilated by new-found gay activity from previously straight guys would be fundamentalist religions like Muslims and Christians who find this repugnant. So its more of an anti-religion gas.
Suffice it to say its a dumb idea as most DoD ideas are under this new NeoCon regime (i.e. starwars, operation iraqi freedom, etc.) There are no guarantees that straight guys will go gay just because another guy smells like a woman! They did not factor in indoctrined environmental inhibitions, deep religous conviction, etc. If anything it may induce higher promiscuity amongst married couples, adultery, or heightened non-married straight sex not more gay buggery! Gay guys are NOT attracted to each other because the partner smells like a woman! Think about it!
Its a dumb idea!