[5th MEB]

Your husband IS WRONG!
I never saw any drug use (other than morphine for the wounded) when I was at Khe Sanh in 68.
Of course I’m talking MARINES here, not wing wipers.
We were all a little bit to busy trying to stay alive and killing the NVA to walk around stoned and stupid.

[vetvetdoug]

My Father was an E-7 USAF Crew Chief at Tahkli AFB, Thailand. He ran a tight ship and druggie airmen were dealt with harshly as he was an acolyte of Curtis LeMay. He also knew that his officers flying the F-4’s and F-105’s were constrained by politics on who and where they could attack Hanoi. Colonel Broughton, fed up with the constraints, strafed the Russian ships unloading ammunition and supplies at Haiphong Harbor. Upon returning my Father personally removed the film and destroyed the film from Col. Broughton’s F-105. Broughton should have been awarded an Air Medal for his bravery that day but instead almost faced a Courts Martial because he ignored a direct order from the State Department to leave certain areas alone in Hanoi. The USAF had their share of brave and unselfish me that gave their lives there in RVN and many gave their lives in support of the USMC. I served in CONUS with the NCBC-Gulfport in 1974-1977 and unfortunately drugs were a problem in many of the troops then.