{"id":416431,"date":"2010-03-11T13:12:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79025"},"modified":"2010-03-11T13:12:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:12:42","slug":"jim-webb-wants-to-buy-you-a-drank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/416431","title":{"rendered":"Jim Webb Wants to Buy You a Drank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsidethebeltway.com\/archives\/jim_webb_let_troops_drink\/\">approving James Joyner<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2010\/03\/let-troops-get-their-drink-on-senator-says\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+WiredDangerRoom+(Blog+-+Danger+Room)&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Nathan Hodge<\/a>, the Virginia senator, ex-Marine and ex-Navy secretary thinks it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/2010\/03\/military_webb_alcohol_warzones_031010w\/\">time to let troops drink in war zones &#8220;for stress relief<\/a>.&#8221; There would obviously need to be alcohol restrictions aplenty, especially when deployed to Muslim countries, but Webb notes that there&#8217;s a disturbing amount of prescription-drug abuse and other forms of self-medication. Alcohol might be <em>less<\/em> dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>And if U.S. servicemembers were permitted to drink during a conscript military, doesn&#8217;t it stand to reason that an all-volunteer force will be more professional and disciplined in their alcohol consumption?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via an approving James Joyner and Nathan Hodge, the Virginia senator, ex-Marine and ex-Navy secretary thinks it&#8217;s time to let troops drink in war zones &#8220;for stress relief.&#8221; There would obviously need to be alcohol restrictions aplenty, especially when deployed to Muslim countries, but Webb notes that there&#8217;s a disturbing amount of prescription-drug abuse and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}