what's that... two beers???
Posted on 10/07/2018 10:09:18 PM PDT by naturalman1975
“Take me to the Brig. I want to see the “real Marines”. – Major General Chesty Puller, USMC – while on a Battalion inspection.
If he wanted to tie one on take Uber that’s other marines do.
drink-driving
What a stupid term.
Sorry, but this man was a senior field grade officer. Since the early 1980’s, a DUI has been a career killer for a commissioned officer in all five armed services.
He knew the rules, and had the responsibility to set and enforce the standard. He failed, sucks to be him.
Was the COL an Obama guy and could he have posed a potential threat to POTUS’s drainage of the Swamp (or false flag participant)? The bird Colonels I’ve known were pretty circumspect when it came to personal behavior that could impact international relations. Then again, presence of mind can be a fleeting thing. “A Wise Man Learns by the Mistakes of Others, a Fool by His Own” - Latin Proverb
what's that... two beers???
I’ll drink to that, bro.
Sad that this guy made the worst bad choice he could have.
Bwahahahaha! They laugh you out of Australia if you ever try that joke there.
.08 isn’t tying one on. It used to be legal.
What they teach here in Australia is that two ‘standard drinks’ (a normal size beer is a little under one standard drink - obviously smaller amounts of spirits, for example, are a standard drink) in the first hour is likely to get a full grown male to near or over 0.05 (the legal limit for a fully licenced driver - probationary licence holders have to be 0.00) - and if you have one an hour after that, you will likely stay at that level.
In essence, to make a rough guess as your BAC take the number of hours since you started drinking and add one to it. If you’ve have had less beers than that number, you are probably under the 0.05 limit.
If I am planning on driving, I drink no more than one beer an hour. To be very safe. If I want to drink more than that, I work out some other way of getting home or wait long enough after drinking my last alcoholic drink to get me below that one an hour average.
It’s not rocket science. There are health issues and similar that can make a difference - but for most people it isn’t that hard to stay under the limit.
The Colonel was at just over 0.1 so would have likely drunk about twice as much to get to that. If he was drinking over say 3 hours - eight standard drinks, or a little under three an hour.
I feel for the Colonel. I’d hate to see a good man’s career ruined over one mistake. But that is now entirely in the hands of the USMC - Australian law has had its say and had its day.
You stand the chance of loosing your TS clearance.
Good Conduct medals are only for enlisted ranks.
“.. Shenanigans Restaurant and Bar..”
I love that name for a tavern, and
I would love have a cold one with the colonel anywhere.
“If the Marines expected you to behave, they wouldn’t challenge you with a Good Conduct Medal.”
LOL! That’s bumper sticker material.
Ridiculous penalty imo.
Agreed. Congress Critters are some seriously corrupt and incorrigible terd bags. Aside from being a bunch of fall-down drunks, they have their own secret slush fund to pay sexual misconduct settlements. Makes me wonder what else they have hidden to protect themselves from their misdeeds.
thx... what’s a standard beer, a pint?
Half a pint of full strength beer, more or less (using British pints - Australia is now more or less fully metric, but our beer glasses are still pretty close to their old sizes - a pint is technically 570ml - and the glass that replaced it is 570ml.
Australia likes to confuse people by having different names for the same sized glasses in different states :) but the half pint size is basically the smaller of the two most common beer glass sizes you’ll find in pubs, even if it’s called a middy, or a handle, or a half-pint, or a pot, or a schooner. So it is a convenient standard.
A typical can of mid strength beer is also pretty close to a standard drink.
Packaged alcohol in Australia will tell you how many standard drinks are in the container.
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