New Drug to Allow Soldiers to Fight for Days Without a Meal

From "Good Morning, Silicon Valley" e-newsletter - and Wired:

It seems DARPA's doing everything it can these days to make the prospect of joining the armed forces as unattractive as possible. In February it was reported that the agency was hard at work on a drug that will allow soldiers to fight for up to five days without eating a single meal. Now comes news that it's developed a dried food ration that troops can be hydrated with urine. Can you imagine fighting without food for five days and then having your first meal be one cooked in your own urine? Sort of give news meaning to the the phrase "urinal cake."

This also gives new meaning to Don Rumsfeld doing war on the cheap. Maybe DARPA can also develop a drug that allows soldiers to excrete bowel movements that can be used as bullets so they won't mind the fact that the Pentagon can't always afford to supply them. Sheesh.

Soldiers are human beings, people!