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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: laplata

Lotta jap crap at the bottom of Truk


61 posted on 07/30/2018 8:06:23 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: gandalftb

Alpha males party hard. This surprises no sentient humans.

Our university / think tank PhDs are another matter.


62 posted on 07/30/2018 8:06:41 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: M1911A1
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.

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.

63 posted on 07/30/2018 8:07:04 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: M-cubed

:) LOL


64 posted on 07/30/2018 8:07:56 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: atc23

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.”


65 posted on 07/30/2018 8:09:32 PM PDT by nickedknack
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To: jospehm20
lol...talk about spanking a Marine!..be nice!...but they take pride in that!..that's why ya gotta love ‘em!
66 posted on 07/30/2018 8:10:16 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: FreedomPoster

I have oddly ever known 2 PHDs with a lick of sense and one was a woman


67 posted on 07/30/2018 8:10:51 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: nickedknack

All against the law now.. :(


68 posted on 07/30/2018 8:12:22 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: gandalftb

Don’t the US Marines always lead the way?


69 posted on 07/30/2018 8:13:39 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: mylife
Army fies them too.

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.

70 posted on 07/30/2018 8:15:01 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: gandalftb

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...


71 posted on 07/30/2018 8:16:01 PM PDT by nickedknack
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To: mylife

Yep.
It’s amazing how big WW II was.


72 posted on 07/30/2018 8:16:12 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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Gnight yall, Dive, Dive, Dive..

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=sunmarinedive+klaxon&view=detail&mid=C2A2D1B7CFCD356BC9CEC2A2D1B7CFCD356BC9CE&FORM=VIRE


73 posted on 07/30/2018 8:17:45 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: laplata

My Grandfather was in China Burma India With Stillwell


74 posted on 07/30/2018 8:19:36 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: nickedknack

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


75 posted on 07/30/2018 8:19:58 PM PDT by atc23
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To: gandalftb

Semper fi, Marines!


76 posted on 07/30/2018 8:20:11 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: nickedknack

Faculty Lounge Lizards like Miss Obama want the Marine Corps to be more like the Air Farce - all FUBAR


77 posted on 07/30/2018 8:22:53 PM PDT by atc23
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To: gandalftb
Yabbut, all those sex partners were of the opposite sex.

Navy and AF results not available.

78 posted on 07/30/2018 8:25:57 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
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To: atc23

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.


79 posted on 07/30/2018 8:26:05 PM PDT by nickedknack
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To: DesertRhino
Me and another Marine, who is now a very famous public figure (all FReepers know him), were in a rifle company sent to Subic Bay in 1986. Talk about no morals. Every verb with "ing" at the end. Savage debauchery. I think we averaged 7 STDs at sick call every morning, but I'm fuzzy on that detail. I do remember the company 1st Sergeant got his bore punched. Our corpsman said the officers were given private sick call in their hooches so that they would not be seen by the enlisted men at sick call.

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.

80 posted on 07/30/2018 8:26:39 PM PDT by Salvavida
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