“Alcohol related? Regardless, RIP Sailor. Fair winds and following seas.”
I arrived there Wednesday afternoon for the Sargo SSN583 reunion and it pulled into port shortly after. Shore leave imbibing would seem to be a possibility. These guys have earned the right to blow off some steam, sad that it might end this way.
Yeah. The phrase ‘spends money like a drunken sailor’ exists for a reason.
I sat next to a SEAL who was escorting the body of a fallen comrade, turns out the guy had fallen off of a pier and drowned. Puzzled, I asked ‘How do you drown a SEAL?’ ‘He was inebriated at the time.’
Not as uncommon as we would like, but as you say the stresses and responsibilities of the job earn the right, and often the necessity, to blow off some steam.