On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:35:45 -0500, "Kevin Brooks"
wrote:

Yeah. Source for the date when drug testing became a standard feature? I
went through pages and pages on Google trying to find a date for the
initiation of military drug testing--one source indicated 1980, another
alluded to 1974. Nothing else more concrete. No statistics for drug testing
results in the military until 1979. Odd, huh? Can you do better?

Who needs drug testing to find out Bush was using?
"When pressed by the national media during the 2000 presidential
campaign, Bush said he quit drinking in 1986 and hadn't used any
illegal drugs since 1974."

I remember drug testing coming in stages. I don't remember anything
about drug testing around 1972 and then I was out of the mainstream AF
until around 1976. At first it was first term enlisted. Then something
like enlisted under age 30. Then everyone which might have been the
1980 date. Only thing I remember real good is the one troop around
1977 was getting hit with "random" drug testing every month for quite
some time. He took it in stride and everyone had a good laugh over his
every month "random" testing.