squeeky, could you please elaborate?

My son, and most of his unit, had alcohol problems when they returned from Iraq in 2006.  He was a member of the 3rd ID out of Fort Stewart.  In their first six months back they lost many good soldiers to alchohol related accidents.  A big reason for this is because Savannah is 40 miles away and so these soldiers were driving drunk and crashing.  So how did the general in charge of the base handle this?  He opened up “Rocky’s” bar on Fort Stewart.  He also relaxed the rules on young females getting onto the base.  So basically the general didn’t care about civilian females driving drunk back to Savannah, so long as his soldiers didn’t drive drunk anymore!  This has cause a huge rise in alcoholism at Fort Stewart and most soldiers can’t get treatment because there are just too many soldiers trying to get treatment and the system doesn’t have enough counselors. 

The army is a great place, but when you have leaders making decisions like this it makes you wonder what the hell this general was thinking!  Opening up a bar on base may help with DUI related incidents for his soldiers, but it only skyrocketed the number of alchohol issues for his soldiers.  This was poor soldier care on his part.

German soldiers, this is a picture of Waffen SS soldiers having a break in the Russian Campaign, how malapropo.

Why a pic of WWII German soldiers???

The military promotes alcoholism. It’s available everywhere to everyone. It’s used to commit date rape and to replace lonelyness and metal stress. Most of the soldiers are ticking time bombs who will discharged back into society without the mental health care they will need. Some of the soldiers will become spousal abusers criminals and will wind up in prisons and mental institutions. The multiple deployments will take it’s toll far worse than any other war we’ve ever seen. We will never get a true number of the real cost. Only the military families will know.