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Topic: Navy: Random alcohol
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Navy: Random alcohol
tests for sailors in US
Associated Press, by Brock Vergakis
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Posted By:BaseballFan, 1/23/2013 9:09:31 PM
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| NORFOLK, Va. - The Navy said Wednesday it will conduct random blood-alcohol tests on its sailors in the United States starting next month, a sign of how concerned the service´s leaders have become about the effects alcohol abuse is having on the force.(Snip)A positive test result for a sailor reporting to work - a reading of 0.02 percent or higher - won´t be used to punish sailors. But the Navy said it could be used to refer him or her to a drug and alcohol program adviser. Adm. Mark Ferguson, vice chief of naval operations, said the random tests could help spot sailors
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Comments:
.02?!? Cripes, you´d test higher than that if you took a quick swallow of NyQuil ! And it says they won´t be used to punish? Yeah, right. Not being advanced to the level paygrade is punishment, and you KNOW those test results will be kept on file.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Foggybottom, 1/23/2013 9:24:12 PM (No. 9135379)
Gee wouldn´t you like to lead men in battle after ruining their careers over something absurd as this.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 1/23/2013 9:43:09 PM (No. 9135407)
Great point, #1. Maybe they should start by closing all the Officer´s Clubs on all the bases. See where that goes...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
voxpopuli, 1/23/2013 9:46:41 PM (No. 9135414)
just make it simple..
disband our ENTIRE military and bring over Medvedev´s and the ChiComs´ troops to bring about Global Communism...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury, 1/23/2013 9:57:28 PM (No. 9135428)
We rehabbed the officer staterooms on a carrier in drydock. We pulled empty liquor bottles by the score from under the racks.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
ishouldknowbetter, 1/23/2013 11:05:32 PM (No. 9135529)
I´m glad I was a sailor in the 1960s. We were still allowed to live up to our reputation, and I certainly did on a regular basis.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Sunhan65, 1/24/2013 1:06:12 AM (No. 9135686)
And, if they fail the test, put ´em in the bed with the captain´s daughter.....
p.s. Does this mean Congress has to start spending like sober sailors?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
4Justice, 1/24/2013 1:21:25 AM (No. 9135696)
And if anyone goes on leave, forget having a beer!! Oh, and you better hope that you don´t have diabetes...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 1/24/2013 1:24:28 AM (No. 9135697)
Part of the denigration, humiliation & demoralization of our military personnel. Our once proud service peeps agree to die for their country but now need to worry about drinking a beer too close to shift start.
Pray, pray, pray that we survive the next 4 years.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 1/24/2013 1:28:28 AM (No. 9135699)
I also read elsewhere that the top military ranks were being culled by asking if they could order their troops to shoot Americans, on US soil. Those that say no are being quietly re-assigned or retired. Hopefully one will come forward & expose this.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Veritas2009, 1/24/2013 4:03:31 AM (No. 9135748)
An old senior Army Warrant Officer told me, once they run off the alcoholics,who they gonna get to fight the war? NOW: The answer is women and fairy f******! Somebody wants us to lose.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
GoodGrief, 3/7/2013 1:26:53 AM (No. 9212392)
I remember a flight surgeon (an M.D. specifically trained and assigned to a squadron or air group) stating that 20% of naval aviators displayed symptoms of alcoholism.
I remember parties that 90% of the naval aviators present were displaying symptoms of alcoholism.
Launch the Ensigns!
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