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Comment by TN Navy Mom (Stennis Nuke Mom) on October 27, 2010 at 3:24pm

SailorSeansDad - I talked to my sailor about "Spice" when he was home after A school. He told me that if anybody at Goose Creek had anything at all to do with "Spice" or anybody who does, then they are nuts. He said that it is beat into their heads to stay away from it.

Comment by SailorSeansDad(Ship12Div354) on October 27, 2010 at 3:14pm

Pentagon launches anti-spice campaign

By Andrew Tilghman - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Oct 14, 2010 5:23:18 EDT

High-level military officials are sounding the alarm about the dangers of synthetic marijuana that is sold legally as “spice.”

The Pentagon Channel is promising “an in-depth look at spice” through October.

“One bad dose could cost you your life,” Marine Staff Sgt. Josh Hauser, an anchor for a Pentagon Channel news program, said during an Oct. 1 broadcast.

On the same day, the American Forces Press Service published an article warning about the health problems and disciplinary measures troops can suffer if they smoke spice or similar products.

A slew of official videos about spice are also popping up on Facebook, iTunes and YouTube.

The official message conveys an urgent health risk and warns troops that smoking the chemical-soaked herbal blend is punishable under the Uniform Code of Military Justice as a wrongful use of “any intoxicating substance not intended for human ingestion.”

One video refers to marijuana as “the devil you know” and spice as “the devil you don’t.”

“You may one day have a bag that gives you the effect of normal marijuana ... but then again you may have something that is 100 times more potent and could lead to death,” Capt. Kevin Klette, a Navy doctor and head of the Defense Department’s Drug Demand Reduction Program, said in a video posted on Facebook.

Military officials acknowledge that the drug is difficult, if not impossible, to catch in routine urinalysis tests.

“We have a difficulty detecting it,” Army Col. Timothy Lyons, chief of toxicology in the Defense Department’s medical examiner’s office, said in the same video.

Experts say spice is a blend of common herbs treated with synthetic cannabinoids, which are chemicals that affect the brain in a manner similar to the active ingredients in marijuana.

The DoD information campaign about spice comes about two years after military officials began identifying the problem.

Army criminal investigators first heard reports of soldiers using synthetic marijuana in 2008. In 2009, a top general issued an Army-wide warning flagging spice as a growing problem.

In the Marine Corps, early problems arose in Japan, prompting Marine commanders to issue a ban there in September 2008. Last July, the Marine base commander at Camp Lejeune, N.C., sent a letter to local merchants urging them to stop selling spice to people who may be Marines.

The Navy reported a large-scale bust in July 2009 on the Japan-based aircraft carrier George Washington, resulting in 15 sailors getting kicked out of the Navy for smoking spice.

The Navy issued a servicewide ban in March.

The Air Force has caught dozens of airmen smoking spice during the past year and explicitly banned it in June.

Comment by SailorSeansDad(Ship12Div354) on October 27, 2010 at 3:09pm

Hi all...I just got the call from my son that he is now officially a Sailor!! I posted something in our PIR group and they suggested I post it here too. I work with a young man who was in the Nuke program and just recently got discharged for smoking something called "Spice" which is a legal substance but NOT in the Navy. It's very popular among the services because it doesn't show up on drug tests but if the Navy finds out your smoked it...they WILL discharge you. So you might want to speak to your sons and daughters and tell them that they need to steer clear of it if...and when...it is offered.

Comment by Vincent'sMom on October 27, 2010 at 9:27am

I was just there visiting and stayed in the "Villas", I saw alot of the older houses, (from the outside of course) It looked like they have a screened in porch of some sort. Is that the "old" ones?

Comment by Vincent'sMom on October 27, 2010 at 9:25am

I believe he said number 52, Is that a 3 b/R?

Comment by Proud_Wife on October 27, 2010 at 9:20am

I'm in an old unrenovated house. I was expecting it to be really bad by what I had heard but its not bad to me at all. My husband and I are actually very happy with it. I actually live off Jefferson. I've noticed that valour beatty has been working on a few of the houses on that street. Getting them ready for people to move in I believe.

Comment by Vincent'sMom on October 27, 2010 at 8:45am

I have heard alot of mixed reviews about the older housing. I know my son said the one he is getting has not been remodeled. (He hasn't seen it yet)

Comment by Vincent'sMom on October 27, 2010 at 8:29am

Ok thanks, Are they in decent shape over there?

Comment by SumiK0125 (wife of a Nuke MM) on October 27, 2010 at 8:21am

vincent'smom- it's probably a three bedroom, there are only a handful of two bedroom houses on that side... maybe 4 two bedrooms on jefferson at all... so i bet he will get a three bedroom

Comment by Vincent'sMom on October 26, 2010 at 7:26pm

Does anyone know if housing on Jefferson Street is 2 or 3 bedrooms? My son says he is going to be on Jefferson Street,

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