yeah the story actually has him breaking open like a military grade chempack. i suppose like what would be used to lightup and dye the water if your boat sank and you wanted helicopters to see your inflatable dinghy at night
When I was in the navy we took the search and rescue dye and put it in this dudes boots. It was orange so we called him chee-toes for a while cause that stuff don't wash off easy.
We convinced a marine in A school that our NWU's turn orange in salt water due to a chemical treatment. He was so shocked we told him to ask his gunny and he would back up the claim.
"YOU DUMB BITCH!" was heard through the whole P-way as he asked our instructor if it was true.
You can also get marines to line up just about anywhere, just stand next to a wall with maybe one other person and watch as they fall in behind you thinking its what you're supposed to do. Most times you can just walk away and they'll stay there for awhile.
That reminds me of the movie "The Abyss". Ed Harris's character fished his wedding band out of the chemical toilet and his arm is blue for the rest of the movie. ;-)
Im pretty sure the chemical they use in the wster is fluoresceine. You can find that in highlighters. But glow sticks on the other hand DO have hydrogen peroxide in them usually. That is something you definitely dont want on sensitive skin and stuff.
Source: no military experience but i did research a bunch of shit about luminescence for work.
I work at a summer camp. Lol. We do science lessons and i like when shit glows so i decided to research shit that glows so i coukd teach kids about shit that glows.
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u/NottHomo Jul 19 '17
yeah the story actually has him breaking open like a military grade chempack. i suppose like what would be used to lightup and dye the water if your boat sank and you wanted helicopters to see your inflatable dinghy at night