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Sailors at Port and the Buddy System

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people are encouraged, perhaps at school field trips, to engage in the buddy system in order that the individuals remain safe. We hear of the buddy system at camp when  considering swimming dangers, and essentially understand the buddy system to be a very beneficial approach to many potentially dangerous conditions. This reality does not change as we get older, for  there are many dangers for people who engage in new environments and new situations. For example, in the case of the military, more specifically sailors in the military, the buddy  system becomes incredibly important in distant lands that may pose potential hazards to a lone individual. In the following paper we examine how and why the buddy system is important  for sailors at port. The Buddy System First and foremost, when a sailor is at port it seems that many see it as a time to break lose  of the military restrictions. Unlike any other individual in the military, the sailor is often confined to a very small space and is at sea for a very long time.  This is a very restrictive environment that simply begs for release when one is at port. And, with such freedom there is often a tendency to lose sight of common  sense, so to speak. In one particular article put out by a military organization we note the following in that regard: "When Sailors trade their controlled shipboard environment for the  free-wheeling, ready-for- anything liberty world, they are thinking of fun, not hazards. Add booze and late nights to the situation, and you have all the ingredients for trouble, whether its  getting beat up in a fight or falling off a pier and drowning" (Berthelotte, 2000; statutes.htm). From this simplistic illustration we can begin to see just how dangerous port can