[PeterPrinciple]

I found this article interesting..........gives a little backgound to drug use in the 60's and 70's.

[kellynla]

we always knew when we were going to be hit...we could smell the marijane in the air. '69/'70

[steve50]

Six fold increase in drug running to the US during our involvement there over a 10 year period, interesting. How long we been in Columbia

[cav68]

I'm sorry about the use of drugs but in the field use was not a problem when I was there. I saw it more in the rear areas but in the field life was different. Large base facilities had problems with every thing from drugs to race issues but I say again not in the field. By field I am stating 11F,C,G,H infantry. Well thats all I have to say about it.

[Free the USA]

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[angkor]

While in Navy boot camp (1975), our NCO railed against Vietnam drug use.

He said one night dozens of sailors had been killed and injured because they were zonked out during a VC attack on his patrol boat squadron.

The way he said it made you know it was true.

[donozark]

This article is 100% unadulterated owl shit. Drug testing was implimented in 1971, at the peak of it's alleged "useage." 4.2% of GIs tested positive. Source:UNHERALDED VICTORY by Mark Woodruff.

Drug use was no higher in VN than back on the block. Another myth perpetuated by the left.

Zero GIs (or at most ONE) defected to the enemy. If drug use was so prevalent among GIs, far more would have "gone native" or crossed over to the enemy.

[RLK]

Use of marijuana did not constitute an operational problem. Smoking in rear areas did not impact operations.

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Other than assertion, what reason do I have to believe this?

[dfwgator]

Aha. So that explains what Al Gore was doing with the rifle. He was using it for a bong.

[SLB]

When I left Vietnam in Aug 1971 we all had to take a urine test. Your name did not hit the bulletin board with a flight number until you had a clean test. When I gave up my little sample there was a mirror over the urinal so an SFC (E-7) who was assigned to each one could witness the urine leave your body and enter the container. What a war story they must have for their grand kids now. "There I was surrounded by urinals........."