In GTA IV they forced you to drive drunk for points or "coins" if you will, in gamer lingo, while running down children who were having fully nude lesbian alien sex.

This game the army wants to buy has absolutely no lesbian sex. None whatsoever. So it's OK.

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There are no children in any GTA IV. Which is a shame.

I'm assuming that this is totally sarcastic.

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The "drunk driving for points" thing was actually said at some point by some idiot, and MADD was accusing GTA IV for glorifying drunk driving.

The nude lesbian sex is just a reference to Fox news' piece on Mass Effect.

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Get this man a 3-piece drum set!

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PEOPLE WILL DRIVE DRUNK IN THE ARMY. No amount of punishment, education, or safety classes will change that. As much as they'd like to tell you otherwise, when you are in the Army, you are just a regular person who happens to be in the Army. SHOULD you behave yourself 'as befits a member of the US Armed Forces'? Of course. Does anyone? Not unless it's an official function.

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There you go. Three workable solutions to the drunk driving problem and non of them involve wasting taxpayer money on fluff projects that will help / change nothing.

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However, there are those who are actually turned off to the concept. Only speaking for myself, I purposely avoided those clubs, since I didn't want to always think of work. By that, I mean that there were times where I wanted to get away from the barracks, post, etc. Going "on the economy" were the best solution for me, since I were able to get away with a car, train (in Europe, at least.), take a "hop", etc.

The "Service Cab" idea makes the most sense, as long as it isn't abused. The only problem that I potentially see of it is that European cabs cost more than American cabs, and I am sure that the issue would be the same within Asia, as well. I'd implement a "ration card" system for that, and allow cabs to be tipped, as well.

I do miss the "old transit" though... They used to be free when I were a kid. That were back when my dad were an ITS instructor, though...@Revenge_of_Nekojin: Agreed, though we used to get around it all with "Round-robin Double D", and pay that person with "extra petrol money", and feed him Cokes, Oranginas and Red Bulls.

Admittingly though, everyone serving had seen people driving drunk on/off base in all ranks. Hell, I've seen people passed out in ditches in front of the barracks! (Know it or not, there are a few posts that still have this setup outside of the United States.)

The truth is that with some MOSes/Rates/AFSCs that are more stressful than others, and with various pressure coming back into the minds of several different types of returning troops, the worst thing that I can imagine would be a reactive treatment force, and rather implement the proper and more adequated counseling that would be needed, not for substance abuse, but the stressors that conflict and deployment brings.

To me, this "solution" is alot like putting a bandaid on a perfectly good knee, when the real problem is a GSW (Gunshot Wound) to the left Latissimus dorsi. It completely avoids the real issues in a way to where it seems colluded to avoid the real problem: The stress and trauma inflicted with the long durations and constant deployments without an adequate amount of time to debrief for service personnel involved in "down range conflict". Those "down range" simply have more stressors than those "in the rear", since there are far more variables that a person thinks about when they sit in the bush.

Or in this case, "a cold rock" (Afghanistan), and "a hard place" (The Sunni Triangle - Iraq).

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Everyone in my company knows that I don't care to drink. I've only been wasted three times. I'm the Training Room, so everyone knows my face. And yet people won't call me if they need a ride back. I'm just waiting to get referred somewhere because I keep threatening, "I might not be able to make this company smarter, but I can certainly eliminate the dumber ones."

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@Grisaille: Ya know, if you said that acronym in the UK, they'd thought you meant "wives and girlfriends", or even a good shag or two lol! Take a hop to RAF Middenhall, and you'll get what I mean...

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Add to the fact that our military ceremonies of different sorts ("Dining Out", for example...), and you have the notorius "grogs" that (most) everyone drinks out of.

It could be worse though... Your whole company could be "dining out" with few bottles of Glenlivet™, and toasting to everything under the colors!

Some people might like the Glenlivet™ though... It's top shelf!

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