"Buzzer" wrote in message
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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?


http://navydrugscreeninglabsandiego....%20History.pdf

"COMMAND HISTORY FOR THE NAVY DRUG SCREENING LABORATORY SAN DIEGO, CA"

"...The United States Navy responded in 1971 by standing up drug
testing laboratories in various Naval Hospitals across the country to
test for drugs of abuse..."

"...In the early stages of the program, NDSL, SD received specimens
from Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy commands in southern
California as well as Navy ships deployed in the Command In Chief,
Pacific (CINCPAC) Area of Responsibility (AOR) and military
installations in Hawaii and the Philippines..."

None of which answers the question of when it became a standard feature, to
include being used in the ANG.

Brooks


http://www.stuttgart.army.mil/Services/ADCO/Content.htm
"Public Law 92-129 (28 SEP 1971): TITLE V - Identification and
Treatment of Drug and Alcohol Dependent Persons in the Armed Forces.
Sec. 501."