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I am a little split on this, First the law is 21 and plain and simply if you are under 21 and drinking it is illegal, but I also know that a little bit of drinking when your in a stressful situation can help relieve that stress, so if they are active duty serving in a battle deployment and they want to down a few beers in their down time that is fine with me. Now if they are in the States and under 21 then no they should not be drinking.

No split for me. I was in at 17. Couldn't legally drink, vote, or buy smokes. Overseas, nobody cared how old you were. In New Zealand, it was 21 to drink unless you were married, then it was 20. Now that's wierd. In the PI (Phillipines), if you could climb onto the stool you could drink. Heck, even here in the states it was like buying milk (from '88-'92).

This is not an issue unless a servicemember gets busted for underage drinking. So if there's a new law it should be that there's no such thing as underage drinking for servicemembers. Any punishable activity they commit can still be enforced w/o the charge of underage.