An US marine: "If you're going to get killed, you might as well get high while getting killed."
" A lot of us were under what I called situational stress and we use drugs over there to survive."
"I make it down here sometimes twice a day, sometimes in the morning, sometimes in the afternoon, then we really get it on in the evening."
U.S. marines getting high smoking dope from a pipe.
U.S. marines getting high smoking dope from a barrel of a shotgun.
U.S. soldiers purchasing some dope under the former RVN regime.
By late 1971 drug use of heroin, marijuana, and opium is epidemic among U.S. troops. 40 to 50 percent of U.S. troops have experimented, used and/or currently using these 3 drugs.
Crappy VNCH fighting got American soldiers involved in a war they do not want to be in, so they turn to drugs as an outlet because their soldiers are being sent home in coffins draped with the American flag.