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Wow, I did not know they were that desperate for people back then. IIRC, it was 30/45/90 days before one could go back to MEPS pissing hot when I joined. I am proud to say I got 3 E1 new private fucks their big chicken dinner right before I ETS'd. It is the most divisive thing a unit can have and there is no place for it in our armed services.
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He was already on a drug waiver when he enlisted
Wow, I did not know they were that desperate for people back then. IIRC, it was 30/45/90 days before one could go back to MEPS pissing hot when I joined. I am proud to say I got 3 E1 new private fucks their big chicken dinner right before I ETS'd. It is the most divisive thing a unit can have and there is no place for it in our armed services.
Needs were different during the cold war but then an accident aboard the USS Nimitz that killed 15 crew members and injured 50 others changed things.
The DoD's "get tough" drug policy started in 1981. It was announced that the Navy had technology to do urinalysis on a widespread basis and that it could detect MJ usage 30 days after cessation of use. A hospital corpsman I knew said it was a "scare tactic". Six months later he and another corpsman got booted out after a narc's testimony got them a trip to the piss jar. Both failed. About the same time the navy started a wholesale campaign of administratively discharging sailors with two or more drug infractions and other disciplinary issues...the start of Secretary John Lehman's "pride and professionalism" campaign.
As of 1982 the drug use policy was this:
One previous drug infraction, detection during MEPS, or previous civilian possession charge: WAIVER - NO MORE CHANCES
First time infraction: standard loss of stripe, restriction extra duty, possible loss of rating due to security clearance and NO MORE CHANCES
Subsequent infraction: DISCHARGE
In the age of the downsized military the policy is even more strict. As you said there are no "chances" now (unless you're Joe BIden's son but I digress).
Six months after I got out I found out an E-5 at the clinic...on his 2nd enlistment and married with two kids...had gotten kicked out. They weren't playing. He was just stupid.
Back to my buddy from "A" school. He was a kid and he fucked up. Forgivable but the charade 34 years later is bullshit.