Posted on 09/04/2022 9:47:59 PM PDT by logi_cal869
A staggering total of 109 soldiers assigned to Fort Bragg died in 2020 and 2021. Dozens have lost their lives there to drug overdoses. Now, their families are demanding answers — and accountability
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On top of the shock and grief of learning that her only son was dead, Bowman was confused. If it wasn’t suicide, then what had happened to Matthew? All she could think was that the other soldier, Diamond, must have done something to harm him.
That was not the case. In fact, Diamond was dead, too. His body had been found slumped over Disney’s on the floor, almost as if in an embrace. And many Fort Bragg soldiers have died recently under similar circumstances — quietly, in their barracks, in their bunks, in a parked car, or somewhere off-post, from no outwardly apparent cause. According to a set of casualty reports obtained by Rolling Stone through the Freedom of Information Act, at least 14 — and as many as 30 — Fort Bragg soldiers have died in this way since the start of 2020. Yet there has been no acknowledgment from the Army or reporting in the national press on any aspect of this phenomenon, nor word one from any member of Congress. Only the families of the victims have been informed — discreetly, and in private.
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However, one conversation she never had with her kids was about counterfeit pills. Military investigators informed her that Disney had ingested an imitation Percocet, a prescription painkiller. “I had never in my life heard of a fake Percocet that looked legit from a pharmacy,” she says, “until my son took one and it killed him.”
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Bkmk
Ping.
Those words should be the first ones out of the mouths of every Republican who is interviewed on TV. It should be repeated endlessly.
Just imagine if President Trump's border policies had been killing that many citizens. The cacophony in the press would still be howling today. Yet, the word 'Biden' didn't even show up in this article. It's time to end this.
Following his recovery at Ft. Hood, he was sent back to West Point as a class advisor or something like that. While there, he died of a drug overdose.
While my friend never discussed the son's death with me, I suspect he overdosed on oxycontin due to his back injury since that drug was coming on the scene in epidemic proportions.
Just to be clear... As it isn’t to me.
You don’t mean drugs prescribed from a physician and dispensed from an actual pharmacy, do you?
Or do you mean prescription drugs, marked like those from a pharmaceutical, but not actually from a legitimate manufacturer, sold illegally on the street?
yes i agree with you.
Why would you take a Percocet that was not prescribed to you?
We Albertans know why.
Drug overdoses are not necessarily accidental.
Some are undoubtedly suicides.
Some high doses may be manufactured deliberately, and they are murders.
Heard on Fox fentanyl leading cause of death in USA age 18-45.
Tucker interviewed the author about this subject. I guess the special forces guys are so special there, that law enforcement doesn’t investigate certain things.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/2mp0U0Er5GpH/
Something mysterious has been happening at the Ft. Bragg Army base. A number of young American soldiers have all recently died from ‘undetermined’ causes. Seth Harp is one of the only journalists looking into this. He joins Tucker to unravel the mystery.
There’s no supply problem with illegal drugs thanks to Biden’s open border with Mexico, a situation that is totally ignored by the media.
Re: 20 - So are you suggesting the parents are on the take?
Maybe the parents should have demanded answers and accountability BEFORE the “kids” went into the military. The military isn’t like going to Camp Granada. When I was in, if somebody from the Rolling Stone rag called me a “kid”, I would have put a boot in their ...
There are two problems right now with overdoses. The government in its Infinite wisdoms has decided to schedule almost everything. Take a gander that schedules 2-5 from the DEA. things that used to be schedule 4 or 5 are now 2 and a lot of them are non-opioid. This plus the government treating chronic pain like a crime and not allowing people to get reasonable medications because of things like PDMPs and terrorizing primary care for writing them has left a ton of people in permanent untreated pain. They of course turn to street drugs. Or commit suicide
The second thing is in around 2011 the Joint commission which is the surveying body for hospital accreditation which if you don’t have the hospital doesn’t get paid made pain the “sixth vital sign”. So if patients complained about oain it didn’t matter what the chart said in terms of if the patient were seeking meds or not properly reporting pain based on exam…. It just went as a finding against the hospital. Naturally hospitals which are no longer run by medical personnel started stupid protocols that were heavy handed with pain meds. Additionally with Press-Gainey surveys becoming important in reimbursement (patient satisfaction) it allowed families and annoying patients to excoriate the hospital on satisfaction which lead non-clinical administrators to put pressure on clinicians to give the family whatever they wanted.
The trifecta is this storm was the OxyContin unethical behavior for marketing. Because of all of this WHICH RESULTED DEMONSTRABLY FROM GOVERNMENT STUPIDITY this is where we are today
The scary think is a lot of the drugs that can be procured from the street have designer drugs which don’t show up on tox screen. Bath salts were the rage a couple years ago. I have been seeing for a couple years with the overdose patients in the ICU combo drugs they didn’t know about. They were doing marijuana and it was laced with fentanyl. Or cocaine cut with heroin. Lots of garden variety parties a thinking they are getting there usual high and dying with a system full of drugs they didn’t know they were taking.
It is horrendous. Couple this with the sadness of lockdowns that were unnecessary and social distancing (we are social creatures after all) and it is pretty obvious why the street drug trade has exploded while at the same time more potent drugs that it takes just a whiff of to kill are working their way into the dark supply chain.
No sure what the answer is. The genie may be out of the barn on this one.
This was buried in the article, but first let me say the illegal drug use is out of control and reprehensible. My son-in-law is in the 82nd. We have had several conversations about a number of issues from woke indoctrination, poor training, housing conditions (mold & lead), solider on soldier violence and piss poor command. My SIL is not a complainer, most of these issues he jokes about. For instance, he laughs off the woke indoctrination because none of the soldiers believe in that crap. It’s just a waste of time.
He had to deal with on base housing/health problems when toxic mold that made my grandson ill was found. That was concerning to me because my daughter and grandson were affected. I was also concerned for his career if he complained. The problem was ultimately solved by moving off base, but that took time to gather the resources.
The soldier on soldier violence problem came up last August before the deployment to Afghanistan. That was a concern to him because he had not been in combat yet. Groups of soldiers were beating the crap out of those that had not been in combat, under the premise they were cowards or something. That’s complete BS because deployments are essentially random to soldiers since they have no control over which battalions are deployed.
While my SIL was not beaten, he cited the potential for on base violence as a reason for wanting to be deployed. It was a concern to him. I saw the on base violence as a lack of discipline and poor control over soldiers by officers. According to my SIL, there is a tremendous amount of disrespect for officers. This goes beyond what I consider healthy complaining that most soldiers have always done. The disrespect today comes from a variety of issues, a lot of which I stated at the beginning of this post. Gen. Donahue did himself no favors by being the last man out of Afghanistan and acting like a victorious general. The soldiers loathe the man. But the disrespect doesn’t stop with Donahue, it extends down in the officer corps to BCs and even lower. The kiss ass politics are overt. Those that embrace all this woke BS get ahead. Worse yet, those that embrace the woke BS are the worst leaders. This article seems to connect the dots for me, there is a leadership crisis in the 82nd, and the some of results are clearly stated in the article.
I write this post because I think it is important to understand how political the military has become. That’s political in terms of leftism, not the politics of getting ahead. This leftist politics leads to fluster cucks like last August in Afghanistan. It leads to a lack of discipline, poor training, soldier on soldier violence, and out of control drug use. It leads to a weakened national defense.
Possibly connected to:
The DEA said the cartels are pushing their synthetic wares into more parts of the U.S. Methamphetamine is more present in some eastern states where that drug was once rare. And fentanyl is growing in the West. Its potency and the lack of quality control in the black market make it easy to cause overdoses—including when users don’t know that fentanyl is laced into or simply sold as other drugs.
From:
https://archive.ph/v93Ol
How Two Mexican Drug Cartels Came to Dominate America’s Fentanyl Supply
The Sinaloa and Jalisco organizations are a dominant source of the synthetic opioid, a leading cause of the U.S.’s record overdoses
“Or do you mean prescription drugs, marked like those from a pharmaceutical, but not actually from a legitimate manufacturer, sold illegally on the street?”
Yes, this. Sorry. The example shown on the news cast had an “M” marked on the pills, which iirc was to mimic a brand of Oxycontin or something like that.
Those days are long gone.
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