Some harsh words concerning liberty (recreational time ashore for sailors) in the US Navy:
“Training, liberty briefings and harsh [nonjudicial punishments] did not work by themselves,” said Chief Warrant Officer 4 Brian Sullivan, electronics material officer aboard the 7th Fleet command ship Blue Ridge. “So we are now back to liberty cards and the buddy system. If it were not for anti-terrorism concerns, I believe, we would be back to wearing our uniforms on liberty and civilian clothes would be a privilege again.
“Until we can go for a period of time without robbing, stabbing, raping and even killing [people in] our host nations and visiting ports of call, I do not see the system changing,” said Sullivan, who believes bouts of media attention to embarrassing public incidents “are driving most of the restrictions on our liberty.”
I'd guess that much of the problem lies in lowering of recruitment standards during this wartime period in order to maintain manning levels, and overall coarsening of US culture.
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