How did they decide, during World War II, to start giving soldiers amphetamines?

Well, that's, you know, Smith, Kline, and French tried very hard to, to get it in, included, not just in this kind of formulary available to medics in, in the army.

They actually sort of intervened with the Assistant Secretary of, of War, McCloy, to try to get it issued as a weapon, like, in amphibious assaults or, you know, sustained offensives in general.

Those troops should be issued with amphetamine on hour 10 or hour 12.

They really tried to kind of force it on, on the military.

Um, the military never required anybody to use it, but they issued it very widely.

It was in first aid kits and emergency kits that were on, like, lifeboats and in, in bombers and stuff where people had to bail out.

He'd gotten ahold of some amphetamine and he was testing it on some of his child patients.