US military spends millions on impotence drugs

Washington (dpa) - The US Army has spent tens of millions of dollars to help soldiers and veterans of the military in the bedroom by covering the cost of erectile dysfunction medications.

The Pentagon’s bill for medicine to treat the problem totalled 84 million dollars last year, a military spokesman confirmed Wednesday.

Half of the total was spent on the drug Viagra, according to data compiled by the Defence Health Agency within the Department of Defense.

Since 2011 the US military has spent 294 million dollars on medication to treat erectile dysfunction, about equal to the cost of four F-35 fighter jets, according to the Military Times.

Erection dysfunction can be triggered by events soldiers experience during deployment, the report said.

Studies show that the number of soldiers who suffer from erectile dysfunction in recent years has gone up.

About 90 per cent of the patients prescribed the drugs were veterans.

A report on the data was published online last week by the Washington Free Beacon, but with far lower figures.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/US-military-spends-millions-on-impotence-drugs-30254431.html

-- The Nation 2015-02-19

well...

it's not like recreational cocaine.

i bet this is money well spent. i bet the people taking it saw improvement in their lives and furthermore that many (most?) of their partners appreciated it as well.

this is good news.

glad for the VA.

stupid for a news org to make a comparison of any kind besides efficacy, i.e. did it work / did it help improve the lives of the veterans, etc.

Shore Patrol handing out "Vitamin 'V'" to disembarking solders for R'n'R in Pattaya...

I buy my own, even though I served 26 years in the Military, my problems is age on set, 80 and still ticking, but little tricking !!

I am not sure they should pay for these drugs and damn sure do not agree with paying for abortions, maybe Rape, Incest or Mother has fatal condition if pregnancy continues !!

I knew an 80 year old that tried to have sex. He got arrested for assault with a dead weapon.

Boy, the stand-up guys will have a field day with this one.

It does remind me of a cartoon I saw in Hustler magazine years ago. A General had this rock-hard erection and was asking an office girl if she would like to "blow the whistle on a high ranking military official."

I can't believe I still remember that one.

Boy, the stand-up guys will have a field day with this one.

555 true

I guess the "America <deleted> Yeah" Slogan will have to be changed to....

"Gonna Try With a Little Help From My (blue) Friend"

Many vets suffer from stress disorders and are put on psychiatric drugs. These cause impotence (some docs don't tell you that). On its own, stress can cause a loss in sexual performance.

I thought that impotence was caused by marriage

deployed soldiers need to have sex with the locals or something ?

it is all in the head... the big one or the little one

Impotent military yeah right.

What business is it of a government to regulate someones erection?

The guy who was in charge should have his dick chopped off.

Patronizing Idiots!!

wabothai, on 19 Feb 2015 - 19:41, said:

What business is it of a government to regulate someones erection?

The guy who was in charge should have his dick chopped off.

Patronizing Idiots!!

Using big words when you don't know the meaning could make you what you called them... last time I used the "id##t" word I was once again suspended, some TV readers are very thin skinned. Any way Patronize :

treat with an apparent kindness which betrays a feeling of superiority.

What makes you think the government "regulates" someone's erection, I would think the guys take the pill voluntarily and "regulate its use themselves.

I thought that impotence was caused by marriage

You just may be right, looking at some of them American Women.

Anyway the American Military must keep their end up.

Interesting. The source of that source was a wire story from DPA. That stands Deutsche Presse Agentur. Would those figures be so easily broken out of a military budget?

Interesting. The source of that source was a wire story from DPA. That stands Deutsche Presse Agentur. Would those figures be so easily broken out of a military budget?

Boy, the stand-up guys will have a field day with this one.

555 true

I guess the "America <deleted> Yeah" Slogan will have to be changed to....

"Gonna Try With a Little Help From My (blue) Friend"

Hiking over a glacier in the Alps a few years ago, my friend and I joked that our " little blue pill" was the Advil we were taking for the muscle aches!

Part of the blame could be that the military has been emasculated by the present US administration...

US military spends millions on impotence drugs

oh they mean ANTI - impotence drugs..... I thought it would be a strange way to control the effects of PTSD..

No wonder the thai women would still come running back to the thai men .. As if the farangs in General has a problem getting it up 5555

Snafu.

WE always referred to American soldiers as a bunch of soft cock and limp dicks. That was just friendly banter.

Has the US military has adopted the old slogan from the 1960s finally!

" MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR!"

I buy my own, even though I served 26 years in the Military, my problems is age on set, 80 and still ticking, but little tricking !!

I am not sure they should pay for these drugs and damn sure do not agree with paying for abortions, maybe Rape, Incest or Mother has fatal condition if pregnancy continues !!

Your opinion seems to truly show your age more than anything else. It's a good thing this type of opinion is fading away as the older populous dies off.