The United States Military has been using Rhino Snot (Envirotac II) for many years now. We first introduced Rhino Snot in Yuma, Arizona where it was applied over the proving grounds for soil stabilization so that airplanes such as Harriers and helicopters could land dust free over sandy areas. Since then it has been used in the Middle East and is the Military's number one choice for dust control.
Rhino Snot is actually the nickname the United States military bestowed upon Envirotac II. So do not be fooled by high priced inferior quality products trying to ride the fame of Rhino Snot by naming there products "snot" in order to cause confusion. To better explain the reasoning of the name Rhino Snot here is an article excerpt explaining the meaning.
Military Construction High-Tech Tools and Hard, Hard work at FOB Rhino.
By Tom Sawyer of Engineer News Record 2/25/2002
Supporting engineers in Hawaii were tracking down a dust control product called Envirotac II that had been tried on Marine maneuvers in Arizona a few years earlier. Justin Vermillion vice president of Environmental Products and Applications Inc. Envirotac's Wildomar, California, manufacturer, says he began to get a series of phone calls and urgent requests for test samples.
The product us a syrupy "goo" that is mixed with water and applied as a top dressing to harden loose soil, he says. Vermillion's sample was quickly approved, and by Dec. 12 he had filled two 5,500 gallon bulk trucks with the product and driven to a waiting C-17 at March Air Force Base in Riverside California.
"Everything was from the hip, we didn't get PO numbers or anything," he says. "I didn't know it was going to Camp Rhino until afterward."
When it arrived, Vermillion says he got a telephone call from a Seabee engineer at Rhino. Cooke says they had called because the kind of application they had in mind wasn't exactly covered in the product literature. "We were looking for a little insanity check," Cooke says.
Vermillion says he also learned the Marines took to calling his product "Rhino Snot." That was all it took to give this product, which already had some other nicknames, a new moniker. The name stuck and so did the runway.
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