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Fighter pilots have to go thru a class 1 flight physical every year, its the toughest flight physical that there is. Not even commercial airline pilots get screened as hard. Everything is checked, blood, chest x-rays, vision, hearing, everything. You have to also be in top physical shape to fly a fighter.
These pilots arent allowed the conveniance to just go to a doctor. They have to see a flight surgeon ONLY or they lose flight status. If a flight surgeon prescribed something, then it has been researched to be safe. The military spends thousands of hours training these people to fly planes that cost millions of dollars. They are not going to risk all of that investment in time and money on something that may be a high risk.
For those of you who have not been in combat, or even any branch of the military, let me clue you in. Combat is extremely stressful. Words and movies cannot portray this. You have no clue untill you experiance it for yourself.
Mistakes happen. Miscommunications happen. Fratracide (friendly fire for those of you that dont know what fratracide is) happens. Unfortunate, but it happens. To blame the incident on a pill prescribed by a flight surgeon is grasping for straws. Calling US Fighter pilots "crack heads" or "drug addicts" is just stupidity and ignorance on your part.
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