Makes my blood boil.
Taking so-called recreational drugs is a choice. Bad choices frequently lead to bad outcomes.
The jab doesn’t give you a positive test for fentanyl
The amount of fake fentanyl out there killing people is staggering. Lots of it comes across the border but a good amount is made here. Using street drugs of any kind right now is extraordinarily dangerous because so many are laced with fentanyl to give it a kick
Trump was addressing this Sadly he wasn’t re-elected. Biden doesn’t care
Long ago the French identified a combination of boredom, feelings of meaningless futility and homesickness as a deadly combination for young enlisted soldiers both conscript and volunteer. The condition was termed Caffard and was a recognized cause of death and entered on death certificates under ‘cause of mortality’. Drugs kill but the endless mindless boredom of junior enlisted life sets one up to try any potential palliative.
During the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, the Army administered drug and HIV tests. The Army should be doing that again. People with drug histories should be barred from enlisting or staying.
But some of the trash is being taken out. That’s a good thing. Eventually, enough straight people will be fed up enough to demand a real war on drugs instead of a stupid metaphor that never really happened.
Take illegal drugs, and die. Stay away from illegal drugs, live.
Does it suck? Yeah. But don’t do drugs boys and girls.
How much of this is related to being in an army with no apparent cause? Hopelessness. No direction. Possibly turned into “climate warriors”. Just saying .
Thanks China and Brandon.
Safe and effective
Brazen misattribution. Parents of servicemembers must be livid.
Epic.
The author is without peer on this story.
I have no words.
I grew up at Fort Bragg and Fort Campbell.
My God. I have too much to say. 🥀
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.
Drug overdoses are not necessarily accidental.
Some are undoubtedly suicides.
Some high doses may be manufactured deliberately, and they are murders.
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.
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 ...
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.
Those days are long gone.
If the guy thought he was taking a Percocet or an Oxycodone, or that he was eating Skittles candy, THEN IT WAS NOT A DRUG OVERDOSE! It is then a case of INTENTIONAL POISONING! 300+ are poisoned every day, while Benedict Biden cruelly replaces the dead Americans with ILLEGAL ALIENS!!