ARMY TARGET DRUGS WHISTLEBLOWERS

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ARMY chiefs are trying to nail whistleblowers who exposed a Scots
battalion's orgy of drugs, sex and booze in Mexico.

Soldiers have been warned to stop leaking stories to the Record after
we revealed they snorted cocaine, had sex with prostitutes and
guzzled tequila as they prepared to serve in Afghanistan.

Furious Army bosses also threatened to take mobile phones off the
soldiers - nicknamed The Cancun Platoon.

And photos of the men boozed-up and naked have been removed from websites.

Despite being threatened by officers at the Argyll and Sutherland
Highlanders' Howe Barracks in Canterbury, Kent, the troops refuse to be gagged.

One said: "They are trying to put the fear of God into us but I take
my hat off to the soldiers who spoke to the Record. People need to
know what is going on and how bad it is.

"I am not saying everyone is taking drugs but it's out of control and
not enough is being done by the Army to sort it out."

Another soldier said: "They were going to take our phones to check
them but that would breach our human rights."

This month, we revealed 17 Argylls were being kicked out after
failing drug tests.

Our stories sparked a furious reaction from serving solders in an
Army internet chatroom.

One soldier insisted they were "very good ambassadors" for the forces
in Cancun.

But another hit back: "You may be able to fool civvies... but most of
this site know what soldiers get up to on the lash (booze, women,
fighting and, in the Scots case, drugs)."