The argument for a long time was that mefloquine is taken on a weekly basis rather than a daily basis, therefore compliance will be better, therefore you don't have to have as big a pill bottle. If you're going for 180 days you have a weekly dose instead of 180 pills. That's part of the reason the military kept using it. However, we found people fear mefloquine, therefore they don't take it; they're non-compliant, so they get malaria.
Again, if we are deploying people with weeks and months worth of MREs, rations, bullets, ammunition, I think we can deploy them with enough medication that they can take that bottle with 180 pills. You can make the argument that they may not be compliant with a daily dose, but we have seen that because there is such fear out there about mefloquine, often people won't take it.
Again, I'd like to emphasize one more time that this drug in the short term, not the long term, is a hallucinogen. You hear so many people talk about vivid, cartoonish dreams; you see some people abusing it for the recreational side effects. That's why I don't think it makes sense to use it in an operational environment where people have big weapons. The consequences of what they do, whether it's friendly fire or shooting other people, maybe not obeying the rules of engagement, the irritability—that's one thing we haven't talked about that I think is important—and the short fuse that you get, you hear over and over again when people are on mefloquine. Mefloquine rage is a very common term.