Bush AWOL Story - New theory comes to light

"Buzzer" wrote in message
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On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 10:24:30 -0800, "Tarver Engineering"
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"Buzzer" wrote in message
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On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 10:54:48 -0500, "Kevin Brooks"
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None of which answers the question of when it became a standard
feature,
to
include being used in the ANG.

Seems to prove all the other articles that can easily be found by
searching google that give regs, dates and such aren't a bunch of
bull. The labs were in place by 1971 and testing increased
dramatically in 1972.

The early tests were easily passed by drinkers. Only non-drinkers ever
failed.

Personal experience?G

The tests were taken by a large population. In my 30 years of being subject
to drug testing I have never been tested.

It is strange nothinig is said about testing for drunks at the lab
site. Maybe it was an easier test and done locally.

In 1972 the USAF provided kegs for the troops. Even in the late 80s there
was usually a keg at the end of a FOD walk on Edwards.

Now that I have thought of it alcohol testing for everyone in 80 might
be the reason a SMS decided to bail at 22 years around that time. Only
guy I ever knew that had a beer keg in his refrigerator with a valve
on the door. I always figured if he was straight enough to attend the
commanders daily briefing I sure as heck wasn't going to say
anything...

"The drug panel had changed by the fall of 1981 to PCP, morphine,
amphetamines, barbiturates, cocaine, and cannabinoid (THC)."

This is the one that amazes me. I thought they were testing for THC
long before this. Might be the reason though when they brought the
dogs through a squadron barracks at K.I. Sawyer on a weekend it almost
wiped out the squadron. At least that was the word that spread quickly
around base on Monday. Or maybe it was just a rumor designed to cause
a mass flush off to get rid of the evidence in other barracks.

The THC test was readily masked by alcohol. These days pot shows up for 30
days in the US DOT test requirement, while cocaine only shows for three
days. If you are a locomotive operator or a pilot and want to get high
these day US DOT has created an incintive to use the hard stuff.