The U.S. military has on the order of 1.3 million active-duty personnel. These men and women serve in 150 countries around the world, as well as aboard a wide variety of naval vessels.
At many of the military installations, both in the United States and overseas, live an even larger number of spouses and children. Added to these millions of active-duty personnel and their families are an additional 2.1 million or so military retirees. Most of them also have family members. Collectively, these millions of people are served by the U.S. military's pharmacy system. Pharmacies are located at many of the installations, as well as aboard ships. The retired community and their eligible dependents receive the majority of their prescriptions from the military's mail-order pharmacy service. In
2018, U.S. military pharmacies dispensed $1.76 billion worth of prescriptions.
As with any operation of this size and budget, there are opportunities for waste, fraud, and abuse. There are also opportunities for more sinister criminal activities.
LIFETIME BENEFITS tells the fictional but frighteningly realistic tale of some of the powerful individuals behind those criminal activities, and of the ways in which one determined Marine and his girlfriend unmask them and bring them to justice.
