marmoset-as a Navy DAPA (who has been one for 5 years) your comments about DUIs not being that bad are making me sick.....and I consider myself one of the cool DAPA's who drinks and homebrews (many are teetotalers).
Wait until you get the guy before you, who is an exellent sailor and looses half a month pay for 2 months and gets knocked down a paygrade (or 2 if he's frocked) for a DUI. Better yet, your hardest worker getting seperated from the Navy as a treatment failure for his second DUI. Whether you like it or not DUIs are taken VERY seriously by the Navy, and they are rules YOU will have to enforce and not throw a bunch of crap out about how laws are BS if you get selected and are allowed in. It may sound extreme, but a look in the civilian world will reveal pretty similar policies, its bad PR when your guys, particularly your guys at the top are out getting DUIs, and many places will $hit can you if you go out and pick one up, especially in a position of authority.
Oh, and the paperwork asks for arrests last I looked. So you have to mention those, whether or not it resulted in a conviction....I know for sure that's the case on the SF86.
In case you were wondering, DAPA=drug and alcohol programs advisor. The guy with the COs ear about alcohol abuse and who has to do all the paperwork and schedule dependency evals when some idiot (including an Officer) gets a DUI, or any other alcohol related offense (believe me, people get creative).
I am in no way saying the DUI will keep the board from selecting someone, that's up to the board. I AM saying you need to stop minimalizing the negative impacts and positive spin you're trying to throw on alcohol issues.
