Anything is possible in the world drugs.......
A few years ago, the son of a close friend died of a drug overdose while a class advisor at West Point.
The son was one of a few Army enlisted men accepted to the academy, graduated then served as an officer in Iraq until he suffered a severe back injury when his vehicle hit a mine and he was thrown from the vehicle.
He returned to Ft. Hood and was eventually reassigned to West Point as a class advisor.
I don't know the entire circumstances but my guess is that the son was involved in drugs in order to control the pain from the back injury he sustained.
That's neither here nor there, the fact that the son died of a drug overdose while an officer stationed at West Point shows that there is no segment of the military that is immune from drug addiction.......
“I don’t know the entire circumstances but my guess is that the son was involved in drugs in order to control the pain from the back injury he sustained.”
It’s not uncommon for vets with injuries to have struggles with drug dependency. People might not like to hear or acknowledge that, but it is a fact.
My youngest brother was career Air Force. He worked undercover with OAS to stop drug shipments on military aircraft from Germany to the US. Mostly heroin.
No, but there IS a personality character that IS immune.
Drug addiction is an individual MORAL issue relating to character. It's not a medical issue or a social issue, it is a MORAL character issue. People are responsible for their own addictions and the consequences. They have always been and will always be responsible no matter how much medicine and compassionate people would like to relieve pitiful addicts of that responsibility. Regardless of good intentions, it belongs SOLELY to the addict. ONLY the addict.
Navy SEALs would be as immune to self-destructive drug addiction as any, though that's not to say some exceptions might go the other way. EVEN IF THEY DID, there's zero way they'd both have OD'd to death at the same time. That's like the guy who committed suicide by shooting himself twice with his own shotgun. In the back.
If you think of the life of a SOCOM guy, years of that are bound to leave you with serious pain from previous injuries.