The Pentagon has spent more on medicament than weapons

Tricare-state health insurance program personnel, military retirees and their families.

U.S. military in 2012, spent on prescription medication more than spent on weapons - tanks, rocket launchers and aircraft.
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According to a study conducted by the newspaper Austin American-Statesman, in 2012, the U.S. Defense Department spending on prescription medication exceeded total expenditures on armaments, including the helicopters, tanks and rocket launchers, reports citing Newsland Pharma Times. For nine years - from 2002 to 2011 - U.S. military spending on drugs increased by more than 123 percent, from 3 to 6.8 billion dollars, which is twice the growth of the U.S. pharmaceutical market.

And while the Pentagon purchases make up only about two percent of the total sales of drugs in the United States, many pharmaceutical companies selling military higher than those on the market as a whole.

As is clear from the research funds are used to a lesser extent to the aid of victims of the war and more on the needs of the aging military retirees who receive health care program Tricare-state health insurance program personnel, military retirees and their families.

Since 2002, the Pentagon has spent more than five billion dollars to the famous and expensive drugs - blockbuster Lipitor, Plavix, Advair Nexium and Singulair. In this case, the drugs used by military force, particularly antidepressants and painkillers, for the same period was spent approximately 2.7 and 1.6 billion respectively.

So in fact the needs of active military program Tritsare - Health Insurance soldiers had no more than 10% of prescription drugs.