The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves

So any form of hard alcohol has been banned in my barracks, time: 2100 last night. Reason? I've not confirmed this, but completely believable sources inform me that division's had five (5) suicides over the 24 hour period leading up to the ban.

Yes, five out of ~22,000 paratroopers independently decided that yesterday was their day to take their own lives. Here's some other interesting statistics: As of Thursday, 2 Feb, my corps (~50k people) had experienced six (6) suicides and 25 cases of domestic violence for the calendar year.

Yet somehow we're the "best corps in the entire U.S. Army" (CO's words, not mine). Right. This place is so amazing that when people go home from work, they beat their wives and kill themselves at an absolutely staggering rate.

But back to the alcohol ban. Instead of this being a wake-up call as it should be, it's being swept under the rug and given the same old tired and ineffective blanket policy approach. "Oh, they're killing themselves at a pace that would make cultists blush? It's obviously not anything we're doing here... it's gotta be the booze. Yeah, that's it. Gotta be the booze." Face, meet palm.

What NEEDS to happen is that someone needs to give even half a fuck about the welfare of our soldiers and recognize that changes must be made in the way we approach issues like anger and depression. Suicide and domestic abuse are symptoms of a larger problem, especially when they occur at such dramatic rates. While alcohol certainly will exacerbate the situation, alcohol alone is not to blame for someone suck-starting their pistol or putting a hoe in her place abusing their significant other.

Fuck this place. Fuck this place so hard.

I'm going to the gun show... may post something there from my new super pimp dope-ass phone (Razr MAXX). Seriously, this thing is amazing.