Latest "narcotics" stories

U.S. Air Force Maj. Brandon Bailey, 332nd Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron medical crew director, awaits the arrival of patients from a forward operating base in Mosul, Iraq, on Sept. 23, 2008, during a "Bandage Mission." Bandage Missions travel to different FOBs throughout Iraq and pick up patients and transport them to the Air Force Theater Hospital in Joint Base Balad, Iraq. (Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon/Air Force)

A major was kicked out for stealing narcotics. Then he took $820,000 from the Air Force.

For the past two years, former Air Force Maj. Brandon Bailey has been the subject of a federal investigation into a complex web of financial and bankruptcy fraud he spun over the course of a decade.

By Rachel S. Cohen

15 months ago

SIGAR: Drug lab bombing was a dead end, and most metrics for success or failure in Afghanistan are ‘classified or nonexistent'

The drug lab bombing campaign in Afghanistan that was championed as a game-changer didn’t have the intended effect of hitting the Taliban’s purse and was probably a waste of resources.

By Kyle Rempfer

4 years ago

Air Force Academy cadet convicted of cocaine use, acquitted on pot charge

It has not yet been decided whether Horne will be disenrolled from the academy and will have to reimburse the military for the cost of his education.

By Stephen Losey

4 years ago

Naked Bush sailor arrested after mad dash through Busch Gardens parking lot

Dozens of attendees at Busch Gardens Williamsburg were taken on a very different roller coaster ride Friday night thanks to an unruly Navy man.

5 years ago

US-led coalition destroys Islamic State narcotics cache — including 300,000 so-called ‘Jihadi pills’

The international coalition to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria destroyed a large drug cache on June 12 that was previously controlled by the militant group.

By Kyle Rempfer

5 years ago

US airstrikes against Taliban drug labs extend to western Afghanistan

In perhaps a sign of the campaign’s success, U.S. Forces-Afghanistan recently announced that its efforts to stem Taliban financing by bombing narcotics facilities would expand beyond southern Afghanistan.

By Kyle Rempfer

5 years ago