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To: CrawDaddyCA
'Alcohol awareness' had a totally different meaning when I was in the Canoe Club!

Yep! This ain't grandpa's Navy anymore! They're really cracking down. If a sailor receives any alcohol related offense (ARO), he's off for an all-expense paid "navycation" to SARP (Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Program). If he receives a second ARO after SARP treatment, he can be administratively separated as a treatment failure.

The Navy is trying to bury the "drunken sailor" image. It can afford to do so as the navy is over-manned. I'll still hear old sea stories from chiefs and 1st classes about "Back in the day, we was sooo f***ed up!" but those days are over. If you show up to work now smelling like booze, stand by to stand by. Don't get me wrong, we still have fun, but the navy is working hard to change attitudes about excessive drinking. It is a mission readiness issue.

Most people will be surprised to learn that the number one cause of death for United States Sailors are off duty traffic accidents --many of which are alcohol related. Not war. Not hazardous work environments, but drunken car and motorcycle accidents.

8 posted on 04/01/2006 4:22:57 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Drew68
The Navy was really cracking down on drinking when I got out in 1995. It was getting so 'politically correct' (women in my rating [STG], women on combat vessels, etc.) it was ridiculous , so I brought my 8 yr career to an 'all stop' and mustered out. My oldest boy (a MA3) doesn't believe some of the stories his mother and I tell him (she mustered out an IC2). It's a family tradition to serve in either the Navy or Marines.
10 posted on 04/01/2006 4:31:44 PM PST by CrawDaddyCA (Your Lord and Master...Foamy the Squirrel)
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