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 ...
Lotta jap crap at the bottom of Truk
Alpha males party hard. This surprises no sentient humans.
Our university / think tank PhDs are another matter.
Do you think that maybe, because he was a Mustang, he actually meant two beers MINIMUM? He got the officers out of the way and with your supervision you could let the troops rip.
:) LOL
Concur, but we did take the #2 spot, and during my 24 years in the U.S. Navy, I did my best to drink, f**k, and smoke (cigars) my way around the world. “A girl in every port, and a port in every...well, you know.”
I have oddly ever known 2 PHDs with a lick of sense and one was a woman
All against the law now.. :(
Don’t the US Marines always lead the way?
Nifty kite
The Army does not have A-10s. They have mostly rotary wing aircraft. Their only fixed wing aircraft is the C-12 Huron.
Another taxpayer funded shrimp-on-a-treadmill boondoggle study, brought to you by the brass hats at Fort Ridiculous (The Pentagon). Their findings: The Marine Corps has a higher percentage of young men than the other Services, and they drink, copulate, and smoke at higher rates. I’m shocked, shocked...
Yep.
It’s amazing how big WW II was.
Gnight yall, Dive, Dive, Dive..
My Grandfather was in China Burma India With Stillwell
Our place in Olongapo was The Hole in the Wall. Coldest San Magoo / most Epic Jungle Juice anywhere anytime of the day or night. Me love them long time
Semper fi, Marines!
Faculty Lounge Lizards like Miss Obama want the Marine Corps to be more like the Air Farce - all FUBAR
Navy and AF results not available.
Haha, still have the first “permission night off” paper for the first, uh, hostess, I met at a Magsaysay bar/nightclub — during Marcos and martial law. After earsplitting music & noise, used to go to the Cork Room...quiet & cool...for pizza and an ice cold San Magoo.
We were the only rifle company returning to Okinawa in anyone's memory that didn't undergo a the mandatory Division's urinalysis after deployment to the Philippines. Word got back to the battalion and regimental HQ (through back channel) that they would lose an entire company, to include its officers and staff NCOs if we returned directly and were tested. So we were sent to Range Company, Mount Fuji, Japan for the winter to dry out and get the THC out of the blood stream.
At Fuji, we converted a quonset hut into a company all-ranks club and christened it with a toga party. But the drugs and various venereal diseases were dealt with.
So yeah, the culture runs deep, probably fueled from the horrors of Vietnam, Korea, and WWII.
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