What are your thoughts on this? WWYD Underage Soldiers buying Alcohol

I honestly am  firm Believer that getting drinking in excess has no place in our military. It leads to severe discipline issues and is a cause of a majority of SIRs. If you can drink responsibly, do so. If not I feel it is a privileged the army should take away more often.

I think the more restricted you make drinking, the more it becomes "glamorized".  Did I drink like a fish during my off duty hours in Rota, Spain? Yes.  But I learned my tolerances from that experience, and I have come close to drinking that much ever again one my own? No.  When someone first drinks, most go overboard the first couple of times.  By restricting it, all you will do is have the stupid stuff start later in life. By getting it out of the way, earlier in the career, it is easy to recover from...if you don't get a DUI/DWI that is...