Posted on 07/30/2018 6:57:24 PM PDT by gandalftb
A new report from the RAND Corporation analyzed survey data from thousands of active-duty military members and found Marines are more likely to be heavy drinkers, use tobacco and engage in riskier sexual behavior than the sailors, soldiers and airmen of the other branches.
RAND found that incidents of binge drinking and hazardous drinking among Marines was almost double what it was in the Air Force.
Nearly half of the Marines surveyed reported drinking habits that met the criteria for hazardous (alcoholism).
The survey also revealed Marines were more likely to have had more than one sex partner of the course of one year and were less likely to use condoms with new partners.
Dr. Sarah Meadows, a senior sociologist at RAND who helped lead the study, said “We’re not trying to blame anyone for this, but the Marine Corps does tend to stand out,” she said.
The type of person who joins the Marines is not necessarily the type of person who joins the Air Force.
Marines led in tobacco use as well.
(Excerpt) Read more at stripes.com ...
Shocking..... Those nasty boys. Well Dr. Sarah Meadows, you ought to see how we treat the enemy.......
We had just returned from deployment, 13th MEU, 2/4 and of course the brass had to make speeches, while we stood in formation, with our familes 50 feet away.
I had flown in early and went to the infirmary to round up the wounded and get them to the parade deck. We got all the cases of beer we could find and slipped them through, covered with blankets, under the wheel chair seats.
It was a considerable pile that we put on the deck. We didn't know the brass was coming. The Battalion C/O shows up, sees the cases of beer covered with blankets and assumes that it was a speakers platform.
He jumps up on the beer and chews us out about over-drinking and partying. Everyone but the C/O knew what was under the blankets.
There wasn't a dry eye in the place as we stifled ourselves. Maybe that was the funniest thing I've ever seen.
We drank all that beer, several Marines chose to sleep on dirt that night.
This “study” is making it sound like the Marines should be more like the f’ing Chair Force and that this somehow is shameful.
If I ask any Marine I know about this study they’d universally say...”yeah we out drink and out f#ck everybody......so what’s the f’ing problem?”
Dang ol devil dogs..
It takes rough men to ensure we sleep peacefully in our beds at night.
From the halls of Montezuma to the short gal Tiffany...
Every Skipper on every submarine claimed, a torpedo tube was loaded with beer and once off station, we’d break it out.
Squids lie and cheat.
What is the problem?
Semper Fi.
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All sounds about right - especially the part about the guy who joins the AF not being the same kind who joins the Corps. OOH-RAH!!!
Oorah! You go Marines! Semper Fidelis.
Did I say something? :)
Another glorious day in the history of the corps!
I beg to differ, I was in the USAF. That was by far the most “active” time in my life. And I was mild compared to my pears
Outstanding story.
I was a Company Gunny and the Company Commander took off with the officers for a night in town on a field exercise. Great officer, mustang, heart of gold when it came to putting the Marines first. He’d get a little excited when he’d made his mind up, and he had an Edward G. Robinson cadence when he talked, and he’d lay down the law and then off he went before you could raise a fuss.
He told the assembled sergeants that there would be a beer mess for the Marines while the Zeros went in town, but Goddamit, there was a two beer minimum and he meant it, see?
I replied, like the Roman Centurion surely did to Caeser, “But, Sir...”
“None of your funny shit, Gunny, I said two beer minimum and that’s all there is to it, see?” and off he stomps.
“Aye, aye, sir”
There were Marines all over the place in the morning, but I had several witnesses that affirmed that I had, as ordered, made sure every one of them had at least two beers.
Four words....
Hillary and Bill Clinton
Says nothing about whether that Marine was male or WM. Therefore, I suppose these statistics are gender-blind? /s
:)
The only reason the Corps won this award is because the Navy doesn’t have any steam driven destroyers anymore - therefore, no snipes
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