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.
They should have visited any club in Subic during the 80’s, or taken a ride back to the piers in the ‘cattle car’, where there were never more than two wheels on the ground at once. Somehow, we all survived.
I’m not bald!
“He suddenly was labeled as having a drinking problem.”
Work is the bane of the drinking class.
One of the effects of shutting down the club system DoD wide.
At least the officer and NCO clubs let you blow off steam in a social setting with your leaders and peers in a more structured way.
The reason that my unit was disbanded was said to be that we drank too much.
I’m not quite sure how to take your comment.
Lajes had Navy, Air Force and Army permanent party units but as far as I know any Marines were just passing through. They may have been flight crew on a Marine C-130 though.
Wait, are you saying there are no more NCO or Officers clubs? How do the officers hold their balls?
Lajes 27 months. I used to watch the Navy guys pour beers into funnels attached to garden hoses while on the 2nd floor and the guys on the ground try to drink it faster than the other guy next to him.
Totally dead. They are now called Community Centers or Conference Centers.
“The reason that my unit was disbanded was said to be that we drank too much.”
There goes the French Foreign Legion.
“Wait, are you saying there are no more NCO or Officers clubs? “
Not in the way commonly understood when America wws still America.
Same in the sixties
MM3
Engineers in Viet Nam actually.
Could the increase in PTSD be a result of decreased drinking?
5 drinks in one sitting once a month is binge drinking?? Snowflakes!!! 4 or 5 before 10 was a regular week night when the ustafish was in port. 4 hours of sleep and we still got up and did our regular duties the next day. And nobody went to sick call for a hangover!!!!
“Fire-brewed Stroh’s!”
We spent three weeks in Alaska back in the winter of 1969. My crew chief was drunk the entire time. He never went to Fairbanks or explored the local area.
When we got our aircraft ready to leave, he was complaining about how he had been in Alaska THREE WEEKS and had never even seen the Northern Lights!
I said to him...”Well, look up.” His words were...”Well I’ll be da*ned!”
There were the Northern Lights in all their glory, just like they had been for the three weeks we were there.
“Five drinks over the course of a barbecue that starts around lunchtime and ends after the sunset sounds like light-to-moderate consumption.”
A 6-pack and a Twinkie is my favorite seven course meal.
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