There are some circumstances where adrenaline will save your life.

There are others where panicking will surely kill you.

Being able to control panic is a major feature of training programmes; making a situation just a little bit familiar (helicopter* submerged escape drill, etc.) can be the difference between life and death.

For those moments when the training isn't enough, make sure you're wearing the new BorgCo armband. Just slap the actvator pad and the system starts a two-part process; a grid of tiny needles perforate a sachet of fast-acting tranquilizer, then the wearer's skin, giving an immediate level of protection- and a second slow-release medication is dispensed in a manner similar to a nicotine patch.

Buy yours today !

(Sold in packs of one. Initial testing indcates that there isn't likely to be a lot of repeat business).

*A bit of a contradiction, since if you got on a helicopter of your own volition you clearly already had a death-wish.
-- 8th of 7, Mar 11 2020

Lance Corporal Jones https://en.wikipedi...ance_Corporal_Jones
His catchphrases are "Don't panic!" ... [8th of 7, Mar 11 2020]

The sunglasses are available as an extra cost option; the DeLuxe version can even be linked to automatically trigger the armband.

// what have you got against helicopters? //

You're new here, aren't you ? Little things give it away ...

In the same way we view cats, we also loathe and detest rotary wing in all its forms. Any airborne vehicle which can trace its ancestry back to an domestic whisk in one generation is not worth considering except perhaps as a source of spares* for a real aeroplane.

*The radios, the seats, the instruments ... that's about it.
-- 8th of 7, Mar 11 2020


I don't think old Jonesey panics. I mean, he had 20+ years of empire campaigning behind him at the start of WW1. He never shies away from dangerous situations, maybe he's just excited for a bit of action?
-- bs0u0155, Mar 11 2020


Helicopter cats! Cats in helico-pters! CopterKittens! Rotating their tails and smiling beatifically down on us all!
-- pocmloc, Mar 11 2020


<Wipes oily rag lovingly over breechblock of 88mm FlAK 39/>

<Checks ready-use racks are full/>

"Bring 'em on !"
-- 8th of 7, Mar 11 2020


That training film "How Not To Be Seen" has a lot to answer for. We know [pertinax] has watched it because he has turned out to be uncommonly skilled at avoiding AA rounds fired on a very low trajectory.

But we'll get him in the end. Or maybe in the head, or torso - if he's lucky.
-- 8th of 7, Mar 11 2020



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