Navy video warns against spice
November 21st, 2011 | Navy spice | Posted by militaryonline
Monday’s announcement of 28 sailors aboard the aircraft carrier Reagan being busted for spice is the perfect hook to mention that the Navy has a new video warning against the use of the synthetic drug.
The video reminds service members how the fake pot can negatively affect their health and military careers, according to a DoD press release.
In the video, Rear Adm. Michael Anderson, medical officer to the Marine Corps, sums it up: “It’s not legal, it’s not healthy, it’s not worth it.”
The video couldn’t come soon enough for the Navy. There has been a rash of busts and subsequent discharges related to spice, including:
- 64 sailors busted in October, 49 aboard the carrier Carl Vinson alone
- 16 sailors busted on the amphib Bataan in February
- 7 midshipmen expelled from the Naval Academy in January. During the spice probe, investigators found a notebook that laid out a plan for an alleged spice ring at Annapolis. The investigation ultimately claimed 16 mids by August.
Airplane trip
August 3rd, 2011 | Aviation Navy spice Video | Posted by Joshua Stewart
Have you ever slowed down to really take your time and think about how how an airplane flies? Like really thought about it? Like looked through the airplane and thought about it, man?
No need to spark up a pipe loaded with spice, Liz Matzelle is giving you that chance with an errie web video. In her clip she shows helicopters and planes flying at incredible speeds, but with their motions played back at a sluggish pace. She captured the footage at an extremely high number of frames-per-second but then played them back at a normal speed. The effect: extremely smooth, slow motion video.
Creating this type of super-slo-mo video may have been an obvious decision for Matzelle — besides scores of videos about airplanes she has several clips of aquatic snails and sea creatures, some of which, of course, have been sped up to unnatural speeds. So kudos to her from the Scoop Deck, where we have yet to even master stop-and-go animation with Legos.
So click away and watch:
Details of flight that are usually invisilbe at normal speeds pop out in slow motion. // Screengrab from Liz Matzelle.
NAS Whidbey Airshow from Liz Matzelle on Vimeo.
‘Spiced’: A Very Special episode
April 6th, 2011 | Humor leadership Naval Safety Center Navy spice Uniforms Video | Posted by Dave Brown
Remember in the ’80s when sitcoms did Very Special episodes? Who will ever forget Jessie’s freak out when she took caffeine pills? Or the time Urkel got drunk and almost died? And don’t get Scoop Deck started on the time Brad got high, or on Uncle Ned’s drinking problem.
The sailors up at the Naval Submarine School in Groton, Conn., are reliving those glory days with “Spiced.” It’s a Very Special episode that naturally features puppets named “Josh” and “Greg” and the latter’s struggle with a very real problem in today’s Navy.
Spice and other designer drugs are scary stuff. And the part about getting kicked out of the Navy for using is no joke. Just ask any of these former mids or former amphibious assault ship Bataan sailors.
Thanks Josh and Greg. You made us laugh, and you made us think. You also taught us that sailors are referring to their Navy working uniforms as “N-dubs.” Brilliant.