re: Alabama football players arrested for DUI under Nick Saban

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College athletes drink alcohol and party, alert the media! I'm not saying driving drunk is ok, but pretty much everyone on this board did it a time or two in our youth. Some probably still do it now. Just saying.

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This. It doesn't excuse their actions and certainly not the consequences that court systems and legal processes will enforce.

But, the standard light infantry company will have ~140 bodies assigned/attached at any given time. That composite is close in size, age, and bravado to any college football team.

The Army places every means possible into deterring DUIs from taxi funds, DDs, used to have weekend drunk vans, and I've even been on installations where the MPs would pick you up and drop you off at barracks to help mitigate the issue. The latter was early 2000s and has since been ruled illegal use of gvment vehicles like the drunk vans to pick you up and avoid driving drunk.

Now, any charge of DUI, failed breathalyzer, or refusal to submit to a test results in initiation of seperation. And, the legal action is generally left to the courts.

All that said, with every means made available to help you avoid the decision and every admin/legal measure in place to deter the behavior, there isn't an IN CO in the US Army that wouldn't be heralded for only having 7 DUIs over a 14 year period.

My first assignment in an ABN IN unit never saw the BN go more than 45 days without a DUI in the two years I was assigned to it.

Young kids do dumb things. I certainly did. Thank God it never ended in tragedy, as it easily could have. If it had, I would have equally deserved the max extent of the punishment for the event.