| TexasBear |
| (Journeyman) |
| 02/12/05 03:13 PM |
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 Re: APO Address?
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APO="Army Post Office"
MP="Military Police, which has an active CID, or "Criminal Investigation Division".
These 3 alphabet soups tend to work together all the time to intercept contraband of all kinds.
In the military, at least technically, it is a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (art. 134) to take any medication, substance or other mood or mind altering substance that is not available in the normal course of military life to all members of a command for legitimate social purposes (ie, caffeine, booze and cigarettes).
It is a crime against the UCMJ to take any medication that a military or billeted public health physician or appropriate enlisted personnel (Corpsman or Pharmacist's Mate, etc) with the authority to act under a physicians orders has not directly and specifically ordered a member to take. A member of the military, at least in theory, cannot take anything without being oredered to and cannot refuse to take anything that they are ordered to (think about the anthrax vaccinations and the Army members who refused to take them last year). If a package of narcotic pain medication showed up at an APO or FPO then the sender, recipient and anyone else they found to be connected to that package, however legitimate it might seem to order to civilians, would be investigated and probably arrested for drug trafficking on a military post (which carries a possible life sentence).
It would definietely be a crime to receive it for the simple reason that no one in the appropriate chain of command ordered you to take it.
In short, DON'T SEND IT TO AN ARMY OR FLEET POST OFFICE! They will come get you for that, all paranoia aside. Civilian rights do not exist in the military, and they would deal with that situation fairly summarily. Just my opinion, but having been in the military, I can't see sending anything to an APO or FPO being ever remotely tolerated by the military authorities.
