Slight caveat - if I remember correctly, you just have to be in a leave status to consume alcohol as a Plebe. I was from Annapolis, and I drank my first (legal) beer during Thanksgiving leave in DTA (I turned 21 during plebe summer - I got to dedicate Blue & Gold to the brewers of Heineken, woohoo!)
They need to get the O'Club back (aka authorize firsties to use it). My class was full of alcoholics (case in point - our 10 year reunion our gifts were a backpack cooler with 4 on the rocks glasses), and over 800 of us became card carrying members of the O'Club. We didn't waste our time with Forrestals. You'd routinely see members of my class in SDB's during 5th or 6th period during the week because they were going to throw back some brews at the O'Club after class. The O'Club manager even got a plaque made up with our class crest thanking us for our support. Oh yeah, we were drunks. My buddy and I decided to be drunk every night our firstie year - and that lasted until we got our six week grades...
That reminds me of the story about some guy in 7th wing that was on restriction (for underage drinking), and his roommates decided to get him a stripper for his 21st birthday and snuck her up the back shaft to 7-2. She was passable in the blue & gold jogging suit, but her bouncer (with ponytail & beard) wasn't so passable. He and his roommates ended up getting busted, but he's a Marine Cobra pilot & WTI now so I guess it really didn't matter in the end (but provided a good story)!
That's CLASSIC!!!
1. My roommate was our company CDO, and the guy was his sponsor brother. He was invited to come up, he did - realized what was going on and left. He hemmed and hawed and called their company CDO and told her to swing by room whatever.
Not sure, but he was adjuticated (was supposed to be 120 days total on restriction - 60 for the underage, plus 60 for the stripper; HOWEVER the President presided over our graduation and as is tradition he pardoned everyone) by the Battalion Commander, so I'd assume it went all the way up to the Dant. Never made it into the Baltimore Sun though!
He and I went through WTI together. It was kinda funny, we were sitting out in front of the Q drinking beers shooting the shit and it came up that we were both Naval Academy grads, then the usual questions ensued. Class year followed by company. When he mentioned his company (after I had already said my class year and company) he followed with "I was the guy that had the stripper in his room." I told him who my roommate was and he said that if he had been in the same situation that close to graduation he would have done the same thing.
