From the detail given your LCPO should be addressing this and thats as high as it really "should" go.
I agree that the LCPO is as high as it "should" go. It would be nice if things could be kept at the lowest level, but the fact of the matter is that in the 2012 DoN, ARIs tend to be CCIRs that rank right up there with deaths, mishaps, UA, etc. As gotta_fly said, not informing the Chain is a recipe for disaster.
Brett said:
At the end of the day, ARI isn't a charge or legal term of art. It's up to the command how they want to label it and handle it.
Agreed. "ARI" is one of those terms I only started hearing within the past 2-3 years, and I'm not sure anybody knows what it means. It seems like a catch-all term that is designed to discourage us from imbibing at all. Prior to that, it was simple: DWI (then DUI)...everything else was what it was (i.e., a fight, an accident, etc.) However, if you've noticed, most/all of our Flash-type reports have a line that says something along the lines of "Was alcohol involved?"
My ARI post was tongue-in-cheek; is any incident related to alcohol an ARI? If I slam a few pints of Pliny (the Younger
) on an empty stomach and go for a spin, that seems like it's a textbook DUI (or DWI, as we
used to call it). However, what if I'm tubing down the river with a few cases of PBR and get attacked by a
rabid beaver...is that an ARI? What if I'm grilling and burn my hand with a MGD in the other?
Yes, this "ARI" thing can get absurd...but only because we in the military have a nasty habit of periodically introducing Buzzword Bingo-friendly terms that gain popularity and enjoy widespread usage without most people having the slightest clue what they mean. (Cue
Lt Beltbuckle...)