Hey everyone, a big thanks to all you who (unwittingly) attended my reenlistment Wednesday! If I ever get around to it, I’ll post photos.
So let’s hear it – what do y’all drink (or ingest – no self incrimination, please) to make it through those days when the earth actually slows its rotation and grinds around the axle at a mind-numbingly torpid pace?
For me, lately, that only happens on days that end in “WHY, GOD, WON’T 5 O’CLOCK HURRY THE HELL UP AND GET HERE?!”
-Farva
First…I know how you feel man…except my end of day was 2100
First no way? Old reliable Mt Dew
I too prefer the Monster Lo-Carb.
As i am the anti-NCO, because i HATE coffee, I take in 2-3 Amp’s (Mt. Dew energy drink) a day on those really slow days and 1 or 2 on a normal day.
Monster, in all its many varieties. (Ripper and Anti-gravity are favorites). If no Monster is to be found, Rockstar or coffee. actually, usually I drink the coffee as well as the monster. I end up consuming about 1000mg of caffeine a day
Back when I was a caffine junkie in the UDM office, I took a 1 liter MtDew and mixed it half and half with Red Bull. Drank a few of those every day. On a really slow day (or pulling 12′s for exercises or whatever) I start out with a pot of strong coffee with lots of sugar. Really its a mystery how I’m not a diabetic or that my heart hasnt blown a gasket.
Monsters!!! They keep UPT going!
I can’t stand coffee, I get my morning caffeine fix with tea. If I am really desperate for a jolt then I will drink a Rockstar, but I try not to make it too much of a habit. I like my heart and current non-diabetic blood sugar level too much.
Sugar Free NOS is good, but if I have time and need a real boost, I prefer iced triple brewed coffee that is then run through a home espresso machine (the ice cubes are made of espresso too
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I normally start my shift with a 20oz Coke and make it last all shift. If I start getting low on fuel, I’ll drink a Mt Dew. However, if the tank goes dry and I don’t even have fumes to run on, I’ll chug an Extra Strength 5hr Energy. I keep a 2 pack in my bag at all times for those random situations when the fuel light comes on.
When I was deployed to Kabul, Rip It was the drink of choice of others; I usually stuck with Coke or some other caffeinated soda. When it was going really slow though, and I had the time, I’d enjoy a cigar out in the garden area…
Back home, Lo Carb Monster, Pepsi Max, or Coke Zero.
At the FOL, Blue (sugar-free) Rip it with Propel beverage powder mixed in it (forces you to chugh the whole thing before it fizzes out of the can… we call it “proppeling it”)
For breakfast; a caffeine Mimossa (Rip it & orange juice mixed… we call it Rip-osa)
And Coffee with evry meal & for whatever reason. (I’m on a first name basis with the Green Bean staff… The M.O.A.C. is A.W.E.S.O.M.E.
Yes, I know evry one of these caffeine binges takes 2.5 minutes off of my life expectancy… don’t judge me! :-\
Gold Peak Sweet Tea
Usually a 1 litter Coke can keep me going for about 15 hours before I’m too tired to safely drive (IE my limit).
When I need to go longer and harder so to speak Monster Assault, More Coke, and/or Max strength 5 hour energy.
Since I don’t drink to many energy drinks in the first place when all my friends and co workers ask how I keep going I usually wind up telling them “The Wrath of God” just to get a laugh out it.
Dublin (TX) Dr Pepper, the ONLY authorized bottler allowed to 10-2-4 use real imperial cane sugar.
(Not available at the eXchange)
No, but the Central Market’s have them!
Chocolate covered expresso beans.
Yes! I once gave myself extreme jitters with those things!
It’s hard to stop at just two or three. I eat the whole bag before I realize it and then I’m up for way longer than I need to be.
I may have to start using stronger stuff. The 24 oz Monster cans that advise only consuming 2 a day aren’t cutting it anymore after 3 of them. A good pot of DFAC coffee in front of the trainees always works too.
LOL, I never noticed that, but there it is on the can right in front of me.
Any more can cause an enlarged heart
Coffee for this guy. I start with two cups in the morning and maybe one after lunch. For my after work entertainment I usually have a few Arrogant Bastard Ales. After all…you are what you drink. As I tell the kids while I’m stealing their candy “You will NEVER be this awesome!” (See what I mean?)
I Drink the giant 750mL cans of Monster Original. It’s funny to see how the sizes of energy drinks have changed in the past few years.
I stay too busy to need caffeine. Usually my day includes the phrase “Its ___ o’clock already!!” usually followed by “No wonder I’m hungry!”
There are drinks besides Mt. Dew?
I’m a huge fan of the coffee flavored Monsters. Like you said Farva, low calories is my motivation PLUS there are tons of real vitamins and minerals in them that are actually useful for both giving energy and making you healthier…
Funny story, my wife and I were on a road trip and we stopped at a gas station to get some drinks and do stuff…and she got some brand orange juice and I got a monster “Mean Bean”. She got on to me because I should be getting something healthy with fruit juice or something..once we got to the car I looked at hers and it said “no REal Juice” and it had tons of calories, and sodium, and all sorts of junk. So, I got to point at her and laugh
Victory is mine!
Any energy drink will work, dew is pretty awesome. And the alltime favorite, chocolate covered espresso beans. Pretty sure those are legal crack…
5 hour energy! They really do work well! I just have a hard time buying them when they are one sip worth, but cost the same amount of money that an energy drink does.
Love the 5 hours energy drinks! my only complaint is the price as well. They do however perform for me better than any other enrgy drink for the long days.
I agree as well. I use 5 Hr energys only if I get to the point of, “If I sit down, I WILL nod off.” I try and steer clear of big can energy drinks though. I was making a red eye’d drive from Panama City to Pensacola at or around 0200 in the morning and drank 2 of the Amp “Big Rig” size drinks and thought my heart was gonna explode by the time I got home.
Either Monster Absolutely or Coffee…Lots and Lots of Coffee
I don’t drink energy drinks ro ay other caffinated drink that much. I may have one 5 hour every once in a while, maybe one every few months. Other than that, I might have dew or tea about once a week. I used to drink a bunch of soda.
Speaking of energy drinks. You should see the tech school students. Holy cow! Some of them would be bringing in 3 to 4 monsters and drink all of them.
I’m a fan of an older drink that people have used to stay awake the next day for centuries: “Full Night’s Sleep”
It’s pretty satisfying and leaves you feeling refreshed and ready to go. Wish they’d produce more of it nowadays… it’s gone way down with all these new, high-fangled things like caffeine and sugar.
Used to drink a Coke Zero or Cherry Coke Zero every morning. Switched to tea last year. But if I need the extra boost in the afternoon, I’ll still grab a Coke Zero…as long as it’s before 4 pm! Any caffeine after 4 pm keeps me up all freakin’ night. I know, I’m a weinie.
I was up to six red bulls a day… then it gave me irritable bowel
A few years ago I was drinking the Jolt energy drinks. I can’t remember the flavors, but I was into the green and red ones. **chuckle** Then I started doing Redline from GNC for a few weeks while working out. Now these days it’s just two cups of coffee in the morning at work. If I’m driving long distances I’ll have a couple of 5 hour energy shots with me just in case I start dozing and the coffee wears off.
XS, though you may have to hunt to find it…
5 Hour Power if I am really hurting, but I have far better ways of passing the time on the dragging days… he he heeee.
I take about a pot and a half of coffee every day
Anything carbonated ith caffiene……
Hard candies and water. Works great for me and the belches after measure on the Richter scale.
You guys are all amateurs. Straight caffeine pills for me.
Pepsi Throwback….
I’m a Monster Lo-Carb kind of guy but if that isn’t around then an old fashion Dew does it for me
Bah! Ranger coffee. 1 part coffee grounds, 1 part sugar, enough water to make it stick. Eat with spoon.
I knew a guy in tech school that took instant coffee grounds and put them in his lip like dip. He said it tasted nasty but two or three dips a day kept him going for hours on end. Get that caffine straight into the bloodstream. =)
Have to be careful of that… it can kill you if you switch to something powerful and not know it.
I drink Cocaine. It’s the same size as your normal Red Bull except it has 280mg of caffine instead of Red Bull’s 80mg.
Shakeology is better!
Coke. If the Earth has stopped rotating or is in reverse, then half-and-half Coke and Red Bull. That combination can animate a corpse.
Usually Diet Coke and/or gum for me…..sometimes….just rocking out to music helps!
Osama bin Ladens last facebook status: BRB someones at the door
Funny you should mention it. A friend of my in the middle east, during the protests, posted on twitter, ‘Secret Police at door… bbltyr’ Two weeks later, he was back on.
That said, funny. However, DevGroup doesn’t knock. If it was SOG guys, they probably show up as Jehovah Witnesses, because they can.
New network show, Extreme Home Takeover, the SEALS edition and a Chad Pennington lookalike is here with the bus.
My own mixture – 1/2 gallon orange juice, 2 cups sugar, 1 box crushed No-Doz. Sip casually all day.
In Iraq, my Team Leader was this real skinny short guy, I swear he lived off of nothing but sugar free Rip Its and cigarettes
For me Monsters taste like a nasty soda and don’t give me a boost, but the new Venom drinks (I think they’re made by Dr Pepper) are absolutely awesome!
Well, I found something that will piss Barbie off. The Air Force just issued a voluntary grounding of the F-22A and Elmendorf wont let any fly.
Hemlock for me…I *love* my job, does it show? ¬_¬
Ripits all the way, Cheap as hell and the same kick as the other drinks. Usually will just have one, on really bad days I will have 2.
“A Ripit a day will keep the sleep away”
Stateside, coke zero or diet dew of varying flavors. Out here, at this lovely undisclosed location in SW Asia, the base runs on RipIts and so do I.
Rip-R-Rade! One part Ripit, one part Gatorade.
A Jolt Cola & a couple of King-Size Snickers Bars Usually works for me…
Doesn’t the Military Give out “GO PILLS” anymore?
Hahaha!
In German, there’s the slangword “marching powder” for Cocaine. It comes from WWI when they used to give troops cocaine before really long marches…
I don’t drink caffeinated drinks, don’t want to start now. Sometimes if I’m low on energy a little sugar boost from something like a Sprite or ginger ale helps. If I’m desperate, 5 Hour Energy. The one thing that really tires me out though is not eating. I need those calories to keep my fast metabolism going.
Everyone in my shop drinks coffee like its water, myself included. That was, of course, until I found out I was pregnant. Now there is NOTHING I can consume to help me through those days. And all the guys just love to flaunt their caffiene at me. Work these days is aaaawesome.
it varies… Monster if the snack bar has em, mountain dew, coffee. My last year of college I had a serious caffeine dependancy. At one point I was drinking a 24 oz monster a day and on the really bad days I’d have two. I cut back my last semester but in tech school I was drinking several cups of coffee a day because I paid for unlimited coffee. It was amazing how fast the shopette on Keesler sold monsters. They’d have it one day and a couple days later the shelf would be bare. I might need to track down some chocolate covered espresso beans…
in tech school it was sugar free monster and when I got to Kadena It became cans of Georgia Cafe au lait coffee.
Last time I was in Iraq the beverage of choice was (and I’m not kidding here) NO-Xplode mixed in RipIts.
It got banned on Adder when Army guys started having heart palpitations.
Blue Raspberry NO-Xplode and Vodka! Urgh!
That is all…
Discussion (69) ¬ STS
What happened to the Monday strip?
I’m wondering the same thing.
well i wondered that for a second too, but then i know he may have gotten busy (sts). but i also wondered what happened to my comment above about me using Arizona RX Energy Tonic?
Few days ago he mentioned going TDY so that is probably why no strip.
Bingo! I was betting on there being internet where I was, but I lost that bet. But I’m back now, so yesterday’s strip will be posted with tomorrow’s.
well its todays strip over at Barbie’s Alma Mater lol
Couple cans of Xyience a day keeps me going.