I was not practicing to commit war crimes. I’m not a war crimes kinda guy.

At Quantico, Marines played war games….shooting blank rounds as harmless as shooting “Bang Bang!”

But in our practice war games, we could use real tear gas. I developed a very effective way to tear gas those Marines playing my enemy.

Everybody knows, when gas is deployed you put on a gas mask. To prepare us for such an event, we sat in a sealed truck trailer filled with tear gas. Wearing gas masks, the tear gas had no effect. Then, each in turn, we removed our gas mask….sang a stanza of the Marine Corps hymn, then stumble outside to deal with all the mucous.

The way to deploy tear gas…or any poison gas….is to first deploy white smoke. Smoke comes from canisters and it helps when you need to be invisible.

Deploy the white smoke and your practice enemy quickly dons their gas masks. Wait and listen. As they discover, someone will yell “It’s just smoke!” And everyone removes their masks.

You deploy real tear gas into the white smoke and catch those who fail to have their masks ready. In the confusion, many will be tear gassed.