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The US Military's Fentanyl Crisis May Be Putting National Security at Risk

 By Ole Braatelien  May 17, 2024 at 7:00am
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It wasn’t hand grenades or machine gun bullets that killed 332 service members from 2017 to 2021.

It was drug overdoses, according to a 2023 Department of Defense report.

Of those deaths, 174 — or 52.4 percent — involved fentanyl, doubling the number of dead in just five years.

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Ole Braatelien
Contributing Journalist
Ole Braatelien has written for The Western Journal since 2022. He earned his bachelor's from ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.




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