I sympathize with you on your loss, and can understand your feelings on the matter, and I will agree to disagree. However, if you do get a commission I would caution you about being so black-and-white, even on this issue. Consider this scenario:
You've got a young 3rd class in your division that is a shining star, one of your top performers, working on his bachelors degree in his offtime, community service, you name it. He has 3-4 beers with dinner, decides he shouldn't drive and waits an hour and then feels nothing, so he heads home. He gets pulled over for having a head light out, and that's it. Passes all the field sobriety tests, but blows a .08. Obviously, great potential and great past performance - but you shoot him down. I don't agree with that, and all I'm saying is that each individual is evaluated on his merits. The CO is going to evaluate him on his merits, and when you're in there talking shit about him when he's getting NJP'd, it'll probably make the CO wonder. And he might not be wondering about the 3rd class, but you. Just food for thought.
Ive been to XOI's for men who worked for me. I defended them. Even on the issue of DUI's. Especially if they are good workers. It will never change the way I feel about the navy's handling of the situation. There comes a point that the military needs to realize this is a major ongoing problem, and our current way of dealing with it is not working. Every year the safety reports come streaming in about sailors killing and getting killed behind the wheel drunk. So I pose this question, do we just keep saying it's ok because they are hard workers and good people who made a mistake? Or pro-actively try and remedy the situation? Because what we are doing now.... isn't working.