Multiple DUI's???
Sayo-effin'-nara to that career, baby.
During the time I was in the service, drinking and getting drunk periodically was not uncommon - however, being drunk offered no excuse for not being held wholly responsible for your actions and a DUI was the proverbial career ending move...especially if you were an NCO or Officer. We all knew that.
We always had a policy of don't drink and drive - either use a designated driver or drinking and need a ride, call me, I'll come get you and then we'll discuss it in the morning.
In 7th SFGA we used to have the SDNCO and SOG on-call to give guys a ride home in the duty jeeps if they were leaving the NCO Club or Annex and too drunk to drive.
The nice thing about Tolz was it was a short walk from the Rod & Gun to wherever your quarters were - probably saved a lot of NCOs who might've attempted to drive otherwise.
DUIs in America today cost far more lives annually than we've suffered from a decade of war in OEF and OIF combined.
http://www.alcoholalert.com/drunk-dr...tatistics.html
And a relatively small percentage of soldiers being problem children? So, what else is new.
I wasn't going to say anything, but when I looked at my wristwatch to check the time and saw the red dot in the middle of the glass crystal, it reminded me to 'Think Safety'... 
Richard
