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And, in most tech and possibly all professional services corporations, ALL employees are banned from abuse of alcohol or any use of drugs not prescribed by a physician for treatment, and no illegal substances are supposed to be "findable" if a client ran a drug sweep. Yes, sub-contractors are eligible for being randomly tested if on the client's site.

I had a fellow RM whose wife was mailing booze to him to the Gulf, and he corrupted half the Shack, which had I known, might have caused an NCIS/NIS investigation had he done one or two more things to threaten me. Since I only found out the night I was debarking and cross-decking by VERTREP to Coronado, I decided that burning everyone else on a vengeance hit at him was not worth it.

Who knows, maybe the same thing has been happening and maybe even some US Postal or USN PCs or other "loopholes" permitted booze to flow to ships. If COs are reporting drunkards and various NJPs/Articles are charged and being "awarded", then obviously the USN *must* install some sort of metrics-capturing device. Can't continue to destroy expensive careers by burning COs for something totally out of their control. If the QD watch is not able to efficiently do 100% bag/kit screening, booze will come aboard. Other scary things will be found on those searches (sex toys, knives, drug paraphernalia, banned books, Viagra, and all sorts of other embarrassing or condemnatory items), legal to purchase or not. Some of those findings might destroy marriages, compromise security clearances, and cause other fallout. Some of the fallout could lead to "rampages" and painful, real Security Alert responses.


Installing the breath testers limits the scope of searches to a single, legitimate target. It limits fallout in the event a legal situation threatens to spiral out of control. It keeps the focus on alcohol abuse -- for now. But, later, it might turn to drugs and STD with more focus on certain things. All it takes is a strand of hair or a plastic card to scrape skin or follicles. Urine is already obtainable, and maybe saliva is, too.

Sailors in the USN (hell, citizens of and in the US of A for that matter) could ponder what it is like for South Korean nationals: they are not allowed to consume narcotics. Even if they go abroad, they can be tested IMMEDIATELY upon arrival to Immigrations in SK, and if they turn up positive for controlled substances, they can be jailed or imprisoned. All it takes is a hair sample, and it is *over*, although they may be sent to a rehab program.

Anyway, who wants to go to GQ and have an OS or an EW in CIC hitting buttons too slowly due to alcohol impairment? Who wants a GS incorrectly setting or overriding engine settings? Who wants a QM manually plotting too slowly if the automated navigation instruments malfunction? Who wants an SM sending confusing or dangerously incorrect Semaphore signals? Or an officer no on station, leaving it to a CPO to cover his/her ass for the umpteenth time?

Of course, it could get crazy if breath testers were stationed every 25% the length of the ship and every other deck level and everyone given "PASS" cards requiring breath tests every 7 hours when underway longer than 2 days, and every 4 hours if transiting from port to port or not sailing more than 100 miles off coast.... But, then that would kill re-enlistment and crimp recruiting. And, it might serve as a way to legitimately reduce billets if budget woes don't improve. Won't help DD-214 prospects, though.