Silly String

An article on Strategy Page talks about how the troops are using Silly String to help them find booby traps. The spray a line into a room they need to search and if it falls to the floor, the room is safer to enter. If the Silly String hangs in the air, its most likely resting on wires that can be almost invisable to see that will set off the booby traps.

Go read the article and if you wnat to help the troops get the Silly String they want (its not GI issued so most of it is provided by Mom and Dad), there is a woman who is buying the stuff and sending it to her son (who is in Iraq) and other units as well.

Another example of our troops finding a new way to lesson their danger and the US public getting the troops the stuff they need with out the red tape.