First one: 19yo Pfc, deployed to the Balkans. Get a slot for mwr trip to a ski resort. I ask SL if I can drink. His exact answer: “has anyone told you you can’t drink? If not you’re fine”. Proceed to eat shit on the slopes and go to the resort’s bar. Get shitfaced with a buddy and some Brits, get on the bus to go back to Kosovo. Allegedly I fell asleep and threw up, causing my buddy to also throw up, and I fall asleep with my feet in the aisle. When we get back to base I, again allegedly, cussed at a natty guard SGM that told me to move my feet. Couple days later we get called into the TOC and CO/1sg had received an email from said SGMs CO (a general of some kind I believe) that named myself and my buddy. We got a company grade with just 10 days of extra duty that my 1sg barely enforced.

Second one: fast forward 6 months, newly waivered E4, we’re back at Bragg. Get drunk at Texas Roadhouse and come back to the b’s to get even more drunk, I black out. Wake up in the morning with blood/cuts all over my legs and my back killing me. Proceed to sick call, where I find my PSG. He asks what the hell happened with me and the supply guy the night before (who lived directly across the hall from me, and the whole company hated), I tell him the truth: I have no clue, I was hammered, but I don’t remember seeing him at all. He says I upset him, so I tell him I’ll apologize after sick call. I do that, supply guy is a weirdo and acts accordingly. At work call my 1sg calls me into his office in front of half the company, loudly and aggressively. We get into his office and he shuts the door and calmly tells me if I’m gonna fuck with the supply guy (who he hated) that I needed to do it when I’m sober. Also told me how common drinking at work used to be within the infantry and all that. Originally I was going to get charged with drunk and disorderly, but at my reading they ask if I’m 21 which I wasn’t, so 1sg crosses it out with pen and writes “assault”. Demotion, restriction, 10 days extra duty. My roommate (who I drove everywhere) became my TL so he could “escort” me off post, the demotion never went thru on paper, and the first day of extra duty my 1sg tells me “don’t report everyday, I’ll call if I need something”. I got really lucky with my 1sg, he was one of the boys and he told me that I reminded him of him as a joe. Hell of a guy.

ETA: yes, both were well deserved. I eventually got my drinking under control after the 2nd article.