This is nothing new..drug abuse has been around the military every since there has been drugs. And as far as the gals getting rich? When I was in Alaska there was a young pretty thing that finally got caught selling it..she was stationed on one of the remote islands…and got kicked out but her comment to me as I signed her discharge papers was “It was worth it” Rumor was that in six months she had banked over fifty thousand dollars..

I didn’t know whether to envy her or chastise her..ain’t free enterprise great?

Dad told me stories, prior to long flights over Germany or other extensive missions, the Flight Surgeons would issue “pep pills” to the crews. Those “pep pills” turned out to be medical-grade methamphetamine. Some got addicted, some didn’t.

This kind of stuff would happen in Iraq, in Iran, in Korea, anywhere there are young men filled with testosterone and are away from women, booze, and co-fueled by the high of combat survival and camaraderie.

BZ

I can sure understand the desire to remove the mind from the BS going on. I also know that any time you put a large population of men in a small area, give them rules and tell them what they can’t do… We MEN are very creative in finding ways around those rules…..

Good Post Fred, I wonder will the MSM pick up on it?

There were several (in the rear with the gear) base camps, I was intially at base camp 15 until we started our movement to the Kuwaiti border.

At this base camp and the other, there was some prostitution going on with the female troops then too.
Also during a ‘Med’ cruise I did there was a Navy supply ship that re-supplied us that was being referred to as the ‘love boat’ because it had both males and females on it and was known to have pregnant sailors on it during that time.

Prostitution is as old as war it’s self, but when you get into the female participants actually being the soldier, airman, sailor or marine then there is a serious problem that certainly needs addressed.

Boozing was easy in Desert Storm too, just send it in the mail via a big cologne bottle and drink it on down around a fire, just be sure to share. And that was in both Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

I never saw much dope smoking, but speed use was prevalent for those that wanted that energy boost around the 0 dark 30 watch.

I never really saw anyone get into trouble for anything I saw and there needs to be more done to make this less of a problem, after all it can lead to several types of addiction when talking about drugs and alcohol but it don’t seem to be very high on the priority list.

With combat comes a lot of PTSD too, this will make you want to drink and do drugs in itself. But this has been a problem in both peace time as well as war.