{"id":161726,"date":"2024-10-05T10:40:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T14:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=161726"},"modified":"2024-10-05T10:40:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T14:40:37","slug":"late-night-off-base-drinking-curtailed-for-us-troops-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=161726","title":{"rendered":"Late night off-base drinking curtailed for US troops in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Animal-House-fat-drunk-and-stupid-is-no-way-to-go-through-life-son.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-161727 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Animal-House-fat-drunk-and-stupid-is-no-way-to-go-through-life-son-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Animal-House-fat-drunk-and-stupid-is-no-way-to-go-through-life-son-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Animal-House-fat-drunk-and-stupid-is-no-way-to-go-through-life-son-446x333.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Animal-House-fat-drunk-and-stupid-is-no-way-to-go-through-life-son-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Animal-House-fat-drunk-and-stupid-is-no-way-to-go-through-life-son.jpg 670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A series of alleged sexual assaults by US military members in Japan this year led to an edict prohibiting late-night drinking. This prohibition applies to off-base drinking from 1 a.m. through 5 a.m. in the morning. Noncompliance with service specific and Department of Defense directives related to sexual assault prevention and response may result in liberty not being granted.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>From Military Times:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The memorandum calls upon military personnel to police both their own and other service member&#8217;s conduct, and report any lawlessness immediately to their superiors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Acts of indiscipline or misbehavior by U.S. military personnel adversely impact international relations, tarnish the image of the United States military, and affect our military readiness,&#8221; the order states.<\/p>\n<p>Commanders retain the right to strengthen the policy when appropriate, as well as provide exemptions to the curfew, according to the order.<\/p>\n<p>The restrictions come after several service members were arrested for sexual assault in the Okinawa region of Japan over the last six months.<\/p>\n<p>The order also calls on commanders to refrain from granting liberty to service members &#8220;not in compliance with Service-specific and DoD directives regarding sexual assault prevention and response training.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ceder, R. (2024, October 2). No more late-night off-base drinking for US troops in Japan. <em>Military Times<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2024\/10\/02\/no-more-late-night-drinking-for-us-troops-in-japan\/\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of alleged sexual assaults by US military members in Japan this year led to &hellip; <a title=\"Late night off-base drinking curtailed for US troops in Japan\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=161726\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Late night off-base drinking curtailed for US troops in Japan<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}