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 ...
My last ship was steam. 23yrs ago.
Steam power is coal or nuclear today.
My idea of a hybrid car is gasoline/steam
When I make a comment about WWII I always use “Jap”, Modern-day discussions I use Japanese. I think that my old man used the same convention. Although I do know he’d be real disappointed in me owning some Japanese built cars!
But they’re counting each other as sex partners.
A far more important first, they are: "..first to fight for right and freedom...and to keep our honor clean..."
So drinking and sex are not relevant to anything except keeping spirits up when you have been trained to know you are probably going to die in a foreign land...At least that's the way it was for us between 1951 and 1957...
Were you counting each other as sex partners? That’s what I heard.
Go Navv...a global force for good!
M.A.R.I.N.E. - stands for “My A** rides in Naval equipment”.
What do you get when cross a gorilla with marine?
A retarded gorilla!
GO NAVY MOTHERFUCKER!!
The MEN'S department.
God bless the Marines!
What a stupid comment.
My Grandfather was in China Burma India With Stillwell
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So was my Dad. He was with Stillwell when the Japs were chasing them. Dad took communications gear in on mules.
I’d bet they rubbed elbows.
Sailors this can not be allowed to stand
Time to get RANDY
The same with my Dad. He was in CBI and then the initial occupation of Japan. General MacArthur ordered that the term Jap was not to be used by American troops. They were to be referred to as Japanese.
Dad, like your Dad, used both terms.
Before he died in 1974, Dad rode in my Toyota and didn’t comment. But he sure liked my brother’s Chevy. lol
God bless the Marine Corps!! Semper Fi!
In the 80s I went to work for JVC and bought an Audi.
My father wondered just who the hell won the war?
More airmen of the "f'ing chair force died" in the air over europe alone in WWII than all the marines in all theatres. Their purple hearts were all earned the same way.
Rand Corp: Marines lead all services in binge drinking, sex partners
Marines: Woo Hoo! Still the champs!
Brrrrrrrrrttt
That's the famous wart(hog) fart of death from above.
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