SOME INTERESTING FACTS
 

Royal Engineers are military's biggest drug offenders as 80 soldiers in the unit failing tests in one year
Soldiers from the Royal Engineers are the biggest drug offenders in the armed forces - it has been revealed.
More than 80 soldiers from the corps were said to have failed a drugs test in the course of 2017, 20 more than the Royal Logistics Corps which came second on the list with 60 shamed troops.
In third place was the Royal Regiment of Artillery, which had 50 drug offenders and fourth was the Royal Armoured Corps with 40 - according to figures released by the Sun.
Prince Harry's former regiment, the Household Cavalry involved in a drug scandal in March, had ten troopers failing drugs tests in 2017.
The Ministry of Defence has not yet released its figures for drug offences this year, but the Household Cavalry is expected to perform even worse.
Meanwhile, the five regiments of foot guards who guard the Queen outside Buckingham Palace had a total of 30 drugs tests failures.
cross all the armed forces, including the Army, Navy and RAF, 770 individuals registered positive for 830 drugs.
Although many of the failed tests were due to Class A substances, more than 30 instances involved the use of steroids.
Army recruits found to have taken banned substances are asked to leave and banned from re-joining in most cases.

A new high ?

P.B.

Jerry,
The Armed Forces and Emergency Services recruit from society and so reflect what is going on generally. You would think members of HM Armed Forces / Emergency Services would be be on another level, but unfortunately not. I served in the Army and Police and whilst in the Police we lost two sergeants in quick succession to Class A drugs. Very sad as both seemed nice blokes. I also think the rise in soldiers taking steroids has increased in line with what's going on generally in society, where youngsters want to be body-beautiful these days, at any cost. When I was an Infanteer we were all slim and lean and ran for fun. Today's young Infanteer seems to be built more like a bodybuilder. A reflection of both society and the role performed by the modern Infantry soldier perhaps? A few years ago a good friend was an instructor at a training establishment and walked me through the lines to see how things are today. I remember being shocked to see large tubs of muscle builder in just about every Soldiers locker. In my day it was a bottle of pop and a well known brand of chocolate bar and I never failed a BFT or CFT. Anyway, all drug misuse is very sad and incredibly dangerous.

What I would be interested to see is the percentage of test/failures across the different Regiments & Corps instead of raw figures as the RA, RE & RLC are the largest percentage of the Army and figures for the Foot Guards by percentage is likely to be far higher!

Not to be sniffed at!
Tony.

Boom Boom !

Phil.