But he still couldn’t stop drinking so was hospitalized again, this time in a rehabilitation center. members and admitting he was an alcoholic, but eventually did. He talked to the first sergeant and the battalion commander and they put him in contact with an A.A. He began hallucinating, and was finally hospitalized, but drank again as soon as he was released. It was the same when they sent him to Germany. He became very paranoid and thought everyone was against him. He began needing a drink in the morning, and missing work because he was still too drunk to stand up. But she soon dropped him, and he still couldn’t believe it was his drinking. When he returned to the States he met a wonderful girl and got engaged. There he tried suicide twice and wanted to kill his sergeant, so they sent him to a psychiatrist. Then he re-enlisted and was sent back to Viet Nam. Next he was sent to Arizona where his drinking increased even more and he started having blackouts and was thrown in jail for speeding and drunk driving. When he came back from Nam he met a girl he liked, but she would not put up with his drinking and told him to leave. He was sent to Viet Nam where he stayed drunk or sick from a hangover for a year. He thought this meant he had no drinking problem. After basic training he didn’t drink for three months because he was in school at night. He was reported to the company commander. He couldn’t take orders from the head cook when on K.P. While still in basic training he got drunk almost every night.

He didn’t do well in school so quit at seventeen and joined the Army. This man was only twenty-four years old when he wrote his story for the 3rd edition. But he couldn’t be an alcoholic at his age, could he?” “Sergeants, doctors, girlfriends – everybody seemed to be picking on him.

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