Air Force Nuclear Drug Use

Air Force probing drug use at nuclear base, The Air Force is investigating 14 airmen at a acute nuclear abject in Wyoming for actionable biologic use, the Air Force accepted Friday. According To USTODAY...

The servicemen are inferior enlisted troops who are allotment of a aegis force at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, a nuclear missile abject abreast Cheyenne, Wyoming, according to the Air Force Global Strike Command, which oversees the nuclear missile force.

The force provides aegis for the Minutemen III missiles, which are based there. Those servicemen who are beneath analysis accept been abeyant from their duties, the Air Force said.. The Air Force said the amount was still beneath analysis and they could not accommodate added details.

The aegis force is accomplished and able to acknowledge bound to threats to the nuclear force.

The analysis was aboriginal appear by The Associated Press.

The allegations are the latest draft to the Air Force’s nuclear missile force. Missile admiral at a nuclear abject in Montana were active in a cheating aspersion two years ago. Some admiral were begin to accept aggregate answers on a accomplishment test. Others knew about it, but did not address it. The analysis led to broader apropos that the nuclear force had developed beaten as the Cold War concluded and the U.S. aggressive confused its focus to the Middle East.

During a contempo appointment to the F.E. Warren base, Robert Work, the agent secretary of defense, said the Air Force had addressed abounding of the assurance problems that the nuclear force faced.