Answer by srrahmork for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
Do you actually want it to be impossible for soldiers to sell them, or do you want interesting consequences for when it happens? If the latter, then how about: Give each dose a unique serial number,...
View ArticleAnswer by workerjoe for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
Why don't soldiers sell their ammunition?This seems like a no-brainer. Soldiers in war don't sell their ammunition to strangers in the war zone because (a) they might need their ammunition and (b) the...
View ArticleAnswer by Robbie Goodwin for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
Use implanted chips to stop the equipment working unless the soldier is present, or genetic markers as permanent indicators of ownership.It might be only in Hollywood that ex-Soviet nukes are for sale...
View ArticleAnswer by Matija Nalis for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
As a more distopian version, your government also makes a fake drugs which looks exactly the same as the real miracle drug given to soldiers, and distributes them (preferably also by people in military...
View ArticleAnswer by John for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
The same way you do with anything disposable.You only put the material in specially made hard to fake syringes, on report of usage soldiers must return the used syringe or be charged the cost of the...
View ArticleAnswer by Joe for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
Have the soldiers buy the device, rather than be given it.This is by no means unheard of; in feudal times, officers typically bought their own equipment. In the modern day, you could imagine this being...
View ArticleAnswer by bta for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
The resource in question has an extremely short shelf life.Your military has a stockpile of the raw form of this miracle substance, which is not particularly useful. You processes/refine the substance...
View ArticleAnswer by Nosajimiki for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
Frame Challenge: Bureaucracy Prefers EmbezzlementWhy would you want to stop soldiers from embezzling the drug? Or rather, why would the person in charge of inventory control want to stop it?As a...
View ArticleAnswer by ShadoCat for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
Metal Neck CollarEconomically, you don't have to prevent all loss, just most loss.Make the collar hard enough to remove that most people won't try.The collar can be designed to ruin the drug in a...
View ArticleAnswer by o.m. for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
Package the drug in a reasonably air-tight vial. Adulterate it with a compound that spoils within a couple of minutes after exposure to air. So one can open the vial and drink the content, but one...
View ArticleAnswer by Josh Part for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
The super-duper-medical resource is actually applied before combat.Be it a pill or a shot, the soldiers are given this resource in base, before any fight o conflict. This is obviously under strict...
View ArticleAnswer by jan.sende for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
Miliary Court and Spot ChecksThis is the boring answer, but that's how it is handled in basically every army. Soldiers have to account for their equipment. If something is used or lost, they need to...
View ArticleAnswer by PcMan for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
Option 1:Make the healing unit a subdermal implant.That way it is always available to the soldier.It cannot be (easily) stolen or sold.The very act of implantation leaves a small scar, which use of the...
View ArticleAnswer by Eugene Ryabtsev for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
The resource won't work on anyone who hasn't received a compatible "enabler".The enabler could be another resource, artifically even more scarce, to be administered in highly-controlled conditions,...
View ArticleAnswer by orithena for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
The resource is automatically administered by an implant.Every soldier gets a one-shot life-saving implant that monitors the soldier's vital signs and administers the resource when needed. (You may add...
View ArticleAnswer by elemtilas for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
Your Money Ain't My MoneyOne relatively simple way to do this that has historical precedence is to set up a dual economy within your sphere of action. You pay your soldiers with short lived Military...
View ArticleAnswer by Eugene Ryabtsev for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
You collect uniquely-labeled empty containers and check the state of containers at regular intervals.So, every morning, or whatever else the opportunity, everyone presents their containers. Every one...
View ArticleAnswer by Ekaros for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
Have it contain a serialized bio-marker. Something harmless for the user and something it ignores in minute quantities, but something that is left behind and possibly breaks down eventually. Then just...
View ArticleAnswer by imtaar for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
Give the resource to a soldier only before warGive the resource to a soldier when he is going for war because he could be wounded during war and he knows that this resource is the only thing that could...
View ArticleAnswer by Demigan for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
This needs a tight supply chain with constant checks that do not have a chance to get discovered by the enemy.A bad example: every vial is GPS tagged and records when it is used. Enemies can pick up on...
View ArticleAnswer by Separatrix for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
Hearts and mindsAnywhere your soldiers are deployed you also set up clinics that give the stuff away for free to anyone who shows up in need. That kills off the black market and gives the soldiers no...
View ArticleAnswer by Kamitergh for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
First: resource needs to find who is soldier and who is not.Second: resource needs to know how to rebuild lost parts of body.Both can be done by DNA analysis. If you imprint soldier's DNA to resource...
View ArticleAnswer by user64888 for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
What counts as a foreign object?I have a tooth filling, is that a foreign object? What about a hip replacement? Do you want to heal every soldier’s pimples every time they take the drug? Of course not....
View ArticleAnswer by L.Dutch for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
The device has two effects: the short term one is what you describe, the healing of wounds and so on, while the long term one is a terrific death induced by uncontrolled cellular proliferation,...
View ArticleAnswer by Monty Wild for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
The simplest solution is that when being used, the device takes a tissue sample of the person on whom it is used, and must be retained by the patient or the person who used it. If it is small enough,...
View ArticleAnswer by Mike Serfas for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
Tattoo the soldiers.That awful old "SPQR" thing, maybe... it doesn't really matter, except you might need to do two or more widely spaced areas. IF they give themselves a dose, all the tattoos...
View ArticleAnswer by Kal Madda for How to stop soldiers from selling their equipment?
I think you hit the nail on the head with the last part of your question:“Or would they target the selling of these resources instead, setting up stings to catch embezzlement that way?”That would...
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Assume there is a resource that allows for rapid regeneration of body parts and termination (magical deletion) of foreign objects in the body upon usage. Let's say it is scarce enough that you can't...
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