West Coast you ignored this important element in ORACs post
As to the US forces paying? The DoD medical annual budget is around $3.6B,. . . the annual cost . . . vanishingly small against the cost of VD treatment - which seems remarkably acceptable as a cost of doing business.
I don't have any knowledge of number or cost, but that statement needs to be acknowledged or refuted.
I know that 25 years ago the cost of discharging drug users was so high that the rules were changed and rehab was introduced.