Posted on 07/18/2018 2:21:43 PM PDT by BBell
About one-third of the service personnel surveyed met the criteria indicating hazardous drinking and possible alcohol use disorder, with 30 percent reporting that they binge drank in the past month. Among Marines, that figure jumped to 42.6 percent.
Binge drinking is defined as more than five drinks for men or more than four for women in one sitting, according to the report, issued by Rand and based on a survey that was conducted from late 2015 to early 2016.
That rate was down from 33.1 percent in the previously reported survey from 2011, but it’s still high enough to cause concern, researchers said. Drinking problems could be addressed by shifting the culture and climate surrounding alcohol use, such as communicating disapproval of heavy drinking and changing on-base alcohol and sales policies, according to the report.
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Survey: Military binge drinking drops, but this service stood out in a bad way
So drinking a whole bottle of Pepe Lopez at the New Sanno in Tokyo right before boarding the bus back to Camp Fuji is out?
My bad.
I expected that service to be the Marines, and whaddya know ...
Pretty low bar.....................
No, that’s just one drink....................
I resemble that remark!................
Back in my younger days, that would have just been a warm-up for the serious drinking yet to come.
Let our soldiers booze up! They keep me safe. Give em hookers too if they need it. Anything for our guys..
Five drinks is binge drinking? Sissies. half my company had shown up for PT still drunk.
We used to call that “Lunch”
Yep! Run it out of them.
Sweathogs from hell. LOL!
Oh good. Wouldn’t wanna have to give back my didn’t get caught ribbons or nothin’.
Just make sure they wear their “rain coats”.
Binge drinking is up. So are instances of PTSD and service related suicides.
Experts may be shocked or baffled by these facts, but not me.
Our society died. Our culture, our values, the factors that made America (and American men) great?
All gone.
Even the armed forces themselves are to blame for this sorry facts. The acceptance of queers in the military was an obvious sign of bad things yet to come.
God help us if we ever get into a full scale war again. What with soyboys, women, queers, dumbed down standards, etc. now being the norm - we would be in a world of (Obama).
NOTE. This rant is not directed at or intended to insult anyone who has or who is serving. God Bless You.
I’m just commenting on what the 8 years of the Obama Regime has done to the overall state of our military today.
Binge drinking is up? Yeah. No sh!t. I’d drink too.
/rant off
Remember:
1 bottle, 1 drink....................
The Navy is nothing, nothing, nothing....boat pulls into port and its wall to wall drunken sailors until the boat leaves.
One of my best friends was in the Corps for 12 years. He said the job of the Marine Corps was “to keep the Squids sober enough not to run the boat into something on the way to taking them (the Marines) to somebody who needs killin’”
Neither I, nor any of the other Squids I know could refute it.
For real. These pollsters are wusses......................
Yabbut, those are drinks without umbrellas and fruit in them.
Nobody wanted to be behind one of those guys who use to close down the e-club before a hump or long run. The odors waifing off or being expelled would kill you.
Those count as ‘fruit juices’.......................part of a balanced diet!...............
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