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| LTC8K6 | Feb 2 2009, 09:22 AM Post #16 |
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Soldiers pretty much aren't armed unless they are in a combat zone or working a disaster area, etc. Your weapon and ammo are pretty much in the arms room under control of the armorer, unless you have a reason to have them. If you successfully check out your weapon and ammo while drunk, that's a whole other problem. There's no reason to allow a 21 year old soldier to drink and not an 18 year old soldier, as far as I can see. A drunk 21 year old soldier is pretty much the same as a drunk 18 year old soldier. Same duties, same responsibilities, same likelihood of getting into trouble, same extra pressures. It's entirely possible for a 20 year old soldier to have far more time in than a 21 year old officer, for example. The butterbar can drink, though. It's a matter of individual responsibility, which is really not set by age. I can clearly remember the complaints from soldiers who got into trouble with drinking and partying, to those of us who did basically the same thing, but rarely got into trouble. "Well, you do it too!" "Yep. But I'm where I am supposed to be, boots shined, uniform pressed, and on duty the next morning. You aren't." The military, unfortunately, tends to set the rules according to the few goofballs in the bunch...
Trying to build up a tolerance? NyQuil would work better back in the day... |
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| Locomotive Breath | Feb 2 2009, 10:04 AM Post #17 |
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Yes, but not of the kind you're thinking.
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| Deleted User | Feb 3 2009, 12:32 PM Post #18 |
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Some of the "increase" is because of better reporting. As a kid I remember going through the UVa. Frat house area Madison Bowl, Rugby Rd. and Carrs Hill, and seeing guy and girls laying there "dead drunk"...The police left them alone...No TV reporters were there demanding that the government take them tojail..Hell the next day they probably wished they were in jail ..... We got beer when we were 14 -18 too if we wanted it, but no one ever put us on TV..24/7 TV news has changed a lot..... Like everyone is saying We can't legislate morals..we tried in 1918 and all it did was bring on gan warfare and crime..Today we've made it so difficult for someone 18-21 to get a beer that they go for harder stuff, where no ID is required !!!!! |
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| jmoo | Feb 7 2009, 12:31 AM Post #19 |
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And, in NC, an underaged drinking (zero tolerance) conviction can (and does) result in driver license revocation -- even if there was no car involved. |
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| Tidbits | Feb 7 2009, 01:10 AM Post #20 |
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Nuns drink. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2213124.ece |
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| Deleted User | Feb 9 2009, 01:51 PM Post #21 |
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I'll have to look into Ky. and Ohio, the area where I live and see if that applies also..But they probably do..... |
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