Otis Willie PIO The American War Library wrote:
A bit of unprovable theory of what was done in the Viet Namese
Conflict.
I have known veterans who said the only thing that made the service in
that theatre tolerable was the easy availability of cannabis. As for
the opoids
most veterans kicked their habit with no problem on their return
stateside.
> Drug Use in Vietnam... an age-old military problem, by Phill Coleman
>
Snipped
The armed forces rightly discourages drug use these days apart from
providing speed to pilots in active operations and making sure
Officers Clubs have liquor and other booze. I think they have tried
to cut back on tobacco which thru WW II and Korea they provided with the
assistance of several major tobacco packagers.
But I worry about drunken soldiers, sailors, airforce and Marines because
they are easily armed and dangerous. Sobriety should
be a watch word and temperate use of any drug, legal or otherwise, should
be encouraged. They all work with dangerous equipment that can do them
great harm when their attention is distracted.
Strangely enough I googled my own name and found among other
'Sellers'es an Air Force officer in the anti-drug education line.
later
bliss -- C O C O A Powered... (at california dot com)
--
bobbie sellers - a retired nurse in San Francisco
"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the beans of cocoa that the thoughts acquire speed,
the thighs acquire girth, the girth become a warning.
It is by theobromine alone I set my mind in motion."
--from Someone else's Dune spoof ripped to my taste.
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