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Military Drug Tests Not Accurate

By VVAW

(The following news item was Seattle as reported by the Chicago Tribune wire services.)

Sloppy testing and paperwork have forced the Navy and Air Force to reverse disciplinary action against more than 5,000 servicemen charged in a military crackdown on illegal drugs, the Seattle Times reported. The Army, meanwhile, is trying to track down 60,000 to 70,000 soldiers to tell them that faulty documentation of their drug tests may allow them to appeal disciplinary action, according to the copyrighted story. During the last 2 years, the Navy, Army, Air Force and Marine Corps have conducted 6 million tests on urine samples from servicemen, with about 375,000 tests indicating drug use and 72,000 servicemen being disciplined, the newspaper said. (!!!!)