Turns out that, according to recent reports, the Air Force has the smallest percentage of smokers of all the services. The most recent data, from 2002, shows the worst smoking case to be the Marine Corps at 38.7 percent. The Navy was second at 36 percent, and then the Army at 35.6 percent. In the Air Force, smokers comprised 27 percent of the force.
The U.S. military needs to wake up to the fact that global dominance is no longer a viable strategy for national defense, because pursuing that unrealizable goal is making the country less safe, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said April 22. Emerging defense technologies like swarms of…