What does this tell us about the quality of recruits and their training and discipline?
It tells us much more about the quality of our leadership.
Don't go there.
There is a long, if not exactly proud, military tradition of going on liberty, getting drunk and making an ash of yourself to the detriment of the service.
Not the first time this has happened and won't be the last.
>>What does this tell us about the quality of recruits and their training and discipline?
Absolutely nothing. I operated a nuclear reactor in the Navy and my division buddies would go out on Liberty and get absolutely sh-faced drunk, but they were sober the next day and standing watch with total professionalism.
I don’t drink alcohol and never have, but this sort of “curtailment” has lots of unintended consequences. All of them are bad.