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Seth Harp is a lawyer and an Iraq war veteran and an investigative writer and journalists.

His first book, The Fort Bragg Cartel,

is about drug trafficking and murder in the special forces.

Near the end of his book, Harp writes, quote,

between January 2017 and September 2022,

a total of 15,293 active duty service members suffered drug overdoses, and 322 of those were fatal.

The Defense Department data, and we're still quoting,

showed that Fort Bragg had far more overdoses than any other military base

in both absolute and per capita terms.

Unquote.

Fort Bragg is located in Fayetteville, North Carolina,

and is the largest populated army base with close to 50,000 soldiers,

and is headquarters of the secret delta force.

Seth Harp, in your acknowledgments,

you write this book exists thanks to Allison Lorenzen,

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