Guardsmen Busted in Ecstasy Plot Wednesday, April 13, 2005 NEW YORK — A U.S. military pilot and a sergeant were being held on federal narcotics charges after admitting they flew an Air Force jet from New York to Germany and returned with 290,000 pills of Ecstasy.....their cargo plane returned to Stewart Air National Guard Base (search) in Newburgh, about 40 miles north of New York City.....he had brought the drugs from Germany and had done so before, eventually taking the drugs to his Bronx apartment for distribution......Ecstasy, also known as MDMA, is a synthetic drug considered part hallucinogen and part amphetamine.