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9. I am an Army-trained drug and alcohol NCO

Most of what we learned was how to run a testing program, but we had a couple days out of the week in which we learned about alcoholism, how to do a “bringing up the bottom” session, those sorts of things. We had to do an outside project, were given several choices, and one of them was “attend an AA meeting and write a report on it.” I did that.

The next day I went to the instructor. “Jerry, for my outside project I’m going to redesign all the paperwork we use so it looks good. I could never send a soldier to that. It was so depressing I left the meeting and went to have a beer.” Turns out half the students in his training sessions do the same thing.