Speaking about young Marines:
A guy I served with 20+ years ago passed through town last weekend. He was here to see his son graduate crew chief school at the Air Station. He was also here a few months back bringing him...
Covid19 disallows large groups and complicated graduation.... so... we had a party at my place for the class.
I had stacks of burgers and hotdogs, and a lot of drinks... ots blazing hot and humid here right now.
To my amazement, and I truly mean amazement, those Marines were more interested in the pool and playing softball in the yard... not to say there wasn't some beer drank, but there were zero drunk... not a single one.
I told my buddy nearing the end of the night "of this were us 30 years ago, we'd be houling at the moon and trying to figure out how to resup the beer situation"... he said that was exactly what he was thinking too....
This younger generation is different than we were. A lot different.. and not all in a bad way, either.