Es gehört laut ABCNews und Wired News zum Standard der US-Kampfpiloten, dass sie Speed einwerfen müssen für lange Einsätze. Ohne dürfen sie teilweise gar nicht. ABC: "Yet not only is the Air Force making the amphetamines widely available to combat pilots, it also has informed them they could be considered unfit to fly certain missions if they don't voluntarily take the amphetamines. (...) But amphetamines, no matter the dose, are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration to combat fatigue, and are listed by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule Two narcotic, in the same category as cocaine." Da schiesst man halt schon mal vorschnell und killt Kanadier statt Afghanen. Wired: " About a week later, two members of the 183rd, Majs. Harry Schmidt and William Umbach, launched a laser-guided bomb on a Canadian training force, killing four and injuring eight. At a recently concluded Article 32 hearing to determine if the pilots should be court-martialed for manslaughter, assault and dereliction of duty, Schmidt and Umbach's attorneys claimed it was the Air Force's dextro-amphetamine tablets, aka speed, that killed the Canadians, not Schmidt and Umbach." Ehre, wem Ehre gebührt: FACTS hatte die Geschichte schon Ende August 2002... Suche hier im Feld "Filter" nach "luftwaffe and speed".