Returning Troops Need to Cool Their Jets

They're dying in motorcycle accidents.

Troops say the bikes fill the adrenalin void they left behind in the war zone.

"Riders who have been in accidents have told us that it's the legal crack cocaine," said J.T. Coleman, a civilian spokesman for the Army's Combat Readiness Center in Fort Rucker, Ala., which tracks accidents among soldiers. "They say it gives them the same adrenaline rush they get driving their tank through Baghdad or whatever."

More troops have died in motorcycle accidents than in Afghanistan.

A Marine told me (last Summer while on leave) that he was urged not to drive at all, because so many young Marines had been lost stateside to drunken or reckless driving.

posted by Laura. at 11:10 AM

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