{"id":25492,"date":"2019-08-03T10:57:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T15:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=25492"},"modified":"2019-08-03T10:57:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T15:57:14","slug":"an-alarming-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/08\/03\/an-alarming-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"An Alarming Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em><strong>CNN<\/strong><\/em> comes a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/08\/01\/politics\/navy-seals-collin-green-service-members-misbehavior\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">note<\/a> on just how much involuntary military turnover occurs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gen. David Berger, the new Marine Corps. commandant, said he was &#8220;troubled by the extent to which drug abuse is a characteristic of new recruits and the fact that the vast majority of recruits require drug waivers for enlistment.&#8221; He also said over the last ten years more than 25,000 Marines were dismissed from the service for misconduct, and drug and alcohol offenses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is this a lot? Over ten years, this suggests 2500 Marines are dismissed for drug and misconduct each year, or nearly 7 a day, 365 days a year.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/em> lists <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Marine_Corps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Marine Corp<\/em><\/a> strength at 182,000. Assuming that&#8217;s an average figure over the last ten years, then roughly 1.3% of the Corp is lost to drugs and misconduct each year. While it&#8217;s highly unfortunate, and speaks to the problems of the greater society, it&#8217;s a little hard to get excited about it without a time series that tells us if this is a waxing, waning, or weird outlier number. I don&#8217;t know how to find that information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNN comes a note on just how much involuntary military turnover occurs: Gen. David Berger, the new Marine Corps. commandant, said he was &#8220;troubled by the extent to which drug abuse is a characteristic of new recruits and the fact that the vast majority of recruits require drug waivers \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/08\/03\/an-alarming-comment\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25493,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25492\/revisions\/25493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}