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To: Ilaine who wrote (4318)12/20/2002 7:13:37 PM
From: kumar  Read Replies (2) of 6901
 
<Speed is bad stuff>

Help me understand - so why are USAF pilots who presumably control some expensive machinery, in addition to their lives, fed the damn thing ? especially in the context of this excerpt from my initial post :

"...The pills, which are illegal in the US, are given to combat pilots who are involved in long eight or nine-hour sorties in small controlled doses, say the military.

The Air Force stopped prescribing the 'Go' pills, as they are known by the pilots, in 1993 after reports that crews using them during the Gulf War became addicted.

But the drug has been quietly reintroduced in recent years. ..."
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