This is one of the oldest tricks in the book.During our wee campaign in Angola we recieved parcels for the first time,in 2 months .
I was surprised as hell when i heard my name being called out ,anyway before i could open the packadge it was searched ,for the the normall contraband
ie marijuana and "buttons ".This parcell was from my older brother who had quite a bit of expierance in the military.
Anyway in this parcell was the normall stuff ,dried fruit ,biltong ,sweets and 9 bottles of colgate shampoo.Now this bottles where all colour coded some where green ,yellow ,blue,or orange.you should have heard the s******s
The question was asked how are you gonna use this when there is not enough water to drink.I duely packed may shampoo bottles away and forgot about them.
2 weeks later we got extra water from our water bunkers so we could shower out of a Gerry can that was placed on top of our rattles .My friend said "Hey don,t you have shampoo ,wahoo i thought i open the bottle poured some into my and low and behold my brother had created a miracle ,he changed the shampoo to rum mmm mmm ,You can imagine my surprise,Everynite our section before sunset would have our ration of rum sundowners was the code word .
And i can remember the battle of lombar river against the 47th brigade each of us took a hefty swig even our medic who did,nt drink
