I have to recommend my roommate for my school's alcohol abuse program thing. He has a history of going out on the weekends and returning to do some pretty unprofessional shit, like going into plebe (freshmen) rooms and bothering them at night which fucks with chain of command-- he already once narrowly avoided getting in trouble for fraternization. We'll call him Fucko. Last night Fucko came back to the room before curfew and proceeded to fall about as he changed clothes. My other roommate handled it by getting him to bed... ...until we wake up at 4AM because the overhead light turned on and we see another kid in our room fumbling with a bandage as Fucko is bleeding out from top of his head like a fucking water fountain. His sheets are covered in dried blood (and piss) and nobody including the guy with the bandage knows what happened. We have to be up in an hour to go to morning formation anyway so we pick up Fucko-- who had apparently fallen asleep while bleeding until random-guy found him because the blood was all crusted and covered on his face making him look like an Italian Freddie Krueger-- and took him to sick call. My roommate and I are talking about this but we think it's time to get the homie some help. The punishments and consequences are so severe for using alcohol out of regulation so it's a tough decision. Anyway that's how my morning is going.
Do your best to convince him he needs ASAP. I don't know exactly how it works on your side of the house, but generally if you're self-referred you won't face direct consequences. Either way if he can't fix this shit by himself he doesn't belong in this organization.
1SG is already tracking, came in asking if fucko is alright and stuff but didn't flip out. Regs are shady on whether or not we should have reported the event but we're waiting for himto wake up so we can do an approach for clarification and we're gonna recommend ASAP then. Idk if this is on every post but we can recommend him to ASAP as well if he doesn't go himself. Also, really good to hear from you as always! Pm me if you got nothing to do.
Good to hear and good on you for looking after ol' fucko. If top is aware it may already be out of your hands. Thanks man, I try to jump on and throw in a comment or two every so often. Life is full, work is never-ending. Finding a touch of time to do nothing seems more and more important nowadays. I'll shoot you a pm.
You're a good friend. If he's in the right place in his life to accept that he needs help, he will be grateful for you starting the process. If he just gets mad, he probably needs the support even more, because he is incapable of seeing the damage he is doing to himself and others. My best friend since middle school dropped out of school for a year because of his relationship with alcohol, encouraged and supported by his 'brothers' in the fraternity he was involved with.
We're going to talk it out with him first and see what's going on. Our concern is that this guy commissions into the Army with the same (or worsened) behavior and becomes a problem for his unit. Junior officers always complain about having to pick up Private X from jail at 2AM and having to deal with PVT x, y, and z's DWIs-- thinking about it being the other way around when his subordinates see him like this... it's just not tolerable.