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Report: Marines lead all services in binge drinking, sex partners
San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | July 29, 2018 | ANDREW DYER

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 ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: alcohol; males; marinecorps; masculinity; men; postedseveraltimes; semperfidelis; usmc
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To: gandalftb

Reminds me of the best year of my life.....1970 rotated from I Corps RVN to MCRD San Diego. Seemingly indestructible first lieutenant with nothing in sight but nurses and teachers.......


41 posted on 07/30/2018 7:35:22 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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To: gandalftb

Here's health to you and to our Corps
Which we are proud to serve;
In many a strife we've fought for life
And never lost our nerve.

If the Army and the Navy
Ever look on Heaven's scenes,
They will find the Angels all paired off
With United States Marines.


42 posted on 07/30/2018 7:41:24 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats. - P.J. ORourke)
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To: gandalftb

Here's health to you and to our Corps
Which we are proud to serve;
In many a strife we've fought for life
And never lost our nerve.

If the Army and the Navy
Ever look on Heaven's scenes,
They will find the Angels all paired off
With United States Marines.


43 posted on 07/30/2018 7:43:23 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats. - P.J. ORourke)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What sound do Marines pray for in a firefight?

Brrrrrrrrrttt

The 30mm gatling gun the A-10 is built around.

Because nothing can stop the US Air force. Except lightning within 5 miles.

IYAAYAS.

44 posted on 07/30/2018 7:44:30 PM PDT by Outlaw76 (One Nation Under God)
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To: gandalftb
lol...Luv it!....I'm Army..but ill give ya a Sempi-fi next time I have to save your ass....(and you owe me a beer!)....But I got to tell ya...I DO admire the USMC spirit...
45 posted on 07/30/2018 7:45:48 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: gandalftb
Boys will be boys.
46 posted on 07/30/2018 7:47:13 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Dick Vomer

Lol I like that.


47 posted on 07/30/2018 7:47:40 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: DesertRhino

Knew a gunny like that once. He often made little “mistakes” that we’d benefit from. Once he made Top....he stopped with the mistakes.

Come on Top....

;)


48 posted on 07/30/2018 7:52:01 PM PDT by 1_Inch_Group (Country Before Party)
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To: Outlaw76

Army fies them too.

Nifty kite


49 posted on 07/30/2018 7:52:30 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

On a tour of the south Pacific, Eleanor Roosevelt bragged about the Marines killing so many Japs. She didn’t say Japanese, she said Japs.


50 posted on 07/30/2018 7:54:20 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: laplata

Micronesia is a boneyard of ships and planes


51 posted on 07/30/2018 7:56:57 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Dick Vomer
This “study” is making it sound like the Marines should be more like the f’ing Chair Force and that this somehow is shameful.

The DOD conducted a study to determine the way men from the four branches of service coped with unexpected dangers.

They were all asked this question:

"What would you do if you found a scorpion in your tent?"

The sailor said "I'd stomp on it and squish it."

The soldier said "I'd hammer it to death with my boot."

The Marine said "I'd catch it, bite the stinger off and eat it."

the airman said "I'd call room service to find out why there's a tent in my room."


52 posted on 07/30/2018 7:57:56 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats. - P.J. ORourke)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Great post.

But Marines can be very philosophical also, when my son made sergeant he said: “ A sergeant in the Marine Corps.....top of the food chain.”


53 posted on 07/30/2018 7:59:06 PM PDT by gandalftb
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To: gandalftb

Once you make Staff NCO the competition gets much rougher.


54 posted on 07/30/2018 8:02:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: gandalftb

Adapt, improvise, overcome.


55 posted on 07/30/2018 8:02:41 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: mylife

That’s right.

At the end of the war, any one of the US Navy Fleets was larger than the whole Royal Navy.


56 posted on 07/30/2018 8:02:54 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: gandalftb
Marines lead all services in binge drinking, sex partners

Reputations and traditions, are earned, and must be maintained.

Semper Fi!!!
57 posted on 07/30/2018 8:04:31 PM PDT by adorno
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To: gandalftb

He forgot mustangs and never met chief of the boat :)


58 posted on 07/30/2018 8:04:45 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: gandalftb

These people are nothing but “fun stoppers”. I don’t like fun stoppers.


59 posted on 07/30/2018 8:05:08 PM PDT by dgbrown
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To: MrEdd

Could we post the words to old cadences on this thread without and account suspensions or deletions? <<

I hope you can’t...It might hurt my old dog Army image and expose your wives and daughters to ridicule.....but Hey...I was only TDY at a Marine base for a few weeks...../s

God bless ya though!!!!...


60 posted on 07/30/2018 8:05:18 PM PDT by M-cubed
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