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

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 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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