Posted on Oct 9, 2017
What advice do you have for service-members and fellow veterans who are struggling with alcoholism or who are new to sobriety?
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Alcoholism - and alcohol in general, is a topic that, though we bring up as leaders, is shied away from. We hear it from out subordinates (and even our leaders) all the time. "Im going to get so drunk this weekend!" or "I can't wait to go home and get smashed!" We talk about responsible drinking all the time, but many of us do this because it's what "we're supposed to SAY". What are you DOING about it? For some of us, alcoholism is an issue that hits a lot closer to home. Perhaps it's a battle you have to live with. What advice do you have to active duty service member or your fellow veterans who are struggling with alcohol or who are new to sobriety?
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try not to let it control your world. Don't let it put you in jail.
and if you fall off the wagon just get back up and start again.
Find a good reason to stay sober and stick by it.
all this is from experience we all slip but we have to restart and have faith in
something so find it.
and if you fall off the wagon just get back up and start again.
Find a good reason to stay sober and stick by it.
all this is from experience we all slip but we have to restart and have faith in
something so find it.
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ENS (Join to see) There has to be a desire on your part to stop or get the help - it isn't easy and there consequences to drinking!
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When I enlisted in 1974 drinking was encouraged and that continued into the 1980s with dining ins and dining outs and other events where dinking was the order of the day ENS (Join to see). In those days smoking cigarettes was also encouraged.
It was hard to quit drinking especially when it was encouraged. I had recognized I was alcoholic long ago.
In my own case, drinking and smoking where activities which went together. I tried to quit smoking a few times; but, finally quit in 1987. The issues fro me were being around friends who smoke and drank. When we had gotten together I fell into my old habits.
After I quit smoking, I finally was able to get with old friend s who smoked and drank without smoking.
That was my first step.
I stopped drinking completely about 1991. I has stopped drinking hard liquor before that.
I had recognized my need for salvation through the Christ in 1987. God helped to purge me of desires I could not eliminate by myself.
Thanks for mentioning me Maj Marty Hogan
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. Capt Seid Waddell Capt Tom Brown SFC William Farrell SSgt Robert Marx SPC Margaret Higgins MSgt Jason McClish AN Christopher Crayne LTC Bill Koski SPC Tom DeSmet SGT Charles H. Hawes LTC Wayne Brandon SGT (Join to see) SGT Michael Thorin SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
It was hard to quit drinking especially when it was encouraged. I had recognized I was alcoholic long ago.
In my own case, drinking and smoking where activities which went together. I tried to quit smoking a few times; but, finally quit in 1987. The issues fro me were being around friends who smoke and drank. When we had gotten together I fell into my old habits.
After I quit smoking, I finally was able to get with old friend s who smoked and drank without smoking.
That was my first step.
I stopped drinking completely about 1991. I has stopped drinking hard liquor before that.
I had recognized my need for salvation through the Christ in 1987. God helped to purge me of desires I could not eliminate by myself.
Thanks for mentioning me Maj Marty Hogan
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. Capt Seid Waddell Capt Tom Brown SFC William Farrell SSgt Robert Marx SPC Margaret Higgins MSgt Jason McClish AN Christopher Crayne LTC Bill Koski SPC Tom DeSmet SGT Charles H. Hawes LTC Wayne Brandon SGT (Join to see) SGT Michael Thorin SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
LTC Stephen F. thanks for the share, heartfelt and inspiring my friend.
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SGT Charles H. Hawes
I can tell you that alcohol and drinking just to get drunk or power drinking as we called it back then led to no good for this guy. Fighting bouncers for fun and sometimes each other, because that was being men. Thank God for finding the right woman and wanting more out of life.
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LTC Stephen F.
SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL - You are welcome, my friends SGT Gregory Lawritson SGT Charles H. Hawes SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
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