Yep, OC is that bad

[ReserveRod]

Had our chemical agent day yesterday. I thought the OC would be a discomfort with watery eyes, itchy throat and runny nose. Boy was I wrong!

[deputy x 2]

Hanging snot boogers!!!

[McGruff]

You're lucky it's a warm day out and that a warm shower isn't needed.

[BigBird]

yep, its bad. What'd you use to wash it off with?

[ReserveRod]

I used some baby shampoo/dawn mix. I dont think it helped. I was so blinded though, I didnt know what I was doing.

[Kravist405]

"Dawn' dishwashing soap worked well for some of the guys in my Academy.

I hate when 10-16's ask me to spray water on their faces after we OC them. It only makes it worse. Then that stuff runs down to there laps and burns the hell out of their privates.

[avalon42]

Fun stuff. Going for tacos afterwards? You already had the "hot sauce"...

I remember they made me cover my right eye with one hand while they liberally doused my left eye. It stung like a mother. Two of the instructors rushed me over to the water hose and sprayed me liberally. Made it WORSE. Then I did as I was instructed to try and force open the eye. It ended up contaminating my one good eye, so now both were outta commission (because the OC was all over my right hand). Then I got yelled at by my TO for not forcing my eyeball open. When he realized that both of my hands got contaminated, they (TOs and instructors) all had a good laugh.

The CS wasn't as bad as the OC IMHO, but I did enter the gas house as it was dying out. They asked if anyone wanted to go again because they had like 8 canisters to get rid of.

[cdakusa]

i remember one of my classmate brought a gal of milk for OC day. haha

[LAschoolCop]

Milk works! It bonds with the OC and actually washes it off your body...water just moves it around. I got OC'd by a suspect and FD gave me milk

It didnt burn while I was fighting but after the adrenaline wore off.....F***!!!!

[IronBruin]

We had ours two weeks ago, but they didn't give us anything to rinse it off with.

[sap123]

Milk works! It bonds with the OC and actually washes it off your body...water just moves it around. I got OC'd by a suspect and FD gave me milk

It didnt burn while I was fighting but after the adrenaline wore off.....F***!!!!

The scientist in me agrees with this post. Milk is by far the best way to quell the burn. Sadly when I went through OC I didn't have any milk near me.

[Dragon Slayer]

Did you get to experience CS gas as well?

[ReserveRod]

I thought about bringing milk, but I had no where to store it. I didnt want to pour warm rotten milk on myself!

We had CN and CS afterward. The CN made my nose and face burn , The CS was way worse than the CN. Coughed like a mad man.

Niether was as bad as the pepper though.

[VChopefull]

Had our chemical agent day yesterday. I thought the OC would be a discomfort with watery eyes, itchy throat and runny nose. Boy was I wrong!

Orange County is not that bad...I've only been there a couple times but I did not have any of those problems.....You probably went to Santa Ana?

[GrndPnd0311]

What percentage is LE grade? In the Corps was hit with OC (10%) twice and the foam once. Did CS every year...which was breath of fresh air (pun intended) compared to OC.