Choices have consequences. If people can't manage themselves with alcohol in work social settings, that's on them. CAF does a very poor job in holding people accountable for their actions in social situations, be it mess dinners, messes etc. No one ever gets fired.
Depends on where you work and who you work for - due to some people that couldn't handle their booze in the mess, I and a large number of other NCO's didn't have to do BOS for an entire year in a battalion I was in...in my younger days, back when getting drunk was not only the norm, but encouraged, one of the platoon Sgt's in my company was literally "disappeared" and career stopped shortly after doing something stupid in the mess. I've used admin and recommended disciplinary measures against folks that had alcohol and drug related issues - they're there, you just have to use them. There are folks on this forum that had/have no problems playing by adult rules, but they applied/apply adult consequences...however, that doesn't happen that much anymore, as there is a general risk aversion to having to deal with the fallout of a/a number of dumb person/persons getting dumber courtesy of their frontal lobe safeties getting flipped from "S" to "R(ETARD)".
The free flow of booze is a great vetting tool. Watching people self destruct in a social setting is good way to weed out the future problems.
It is...but it can also be argued that "I was just doing what I was encouraged, maybe even ordered, to do". If you're going to imply that people must drink, whether or not they can handle their booze, you as the boss then need to be able to accept the consequences of those actions - such as people seriously injured because of unruliness, people getting a hold of vehicles and driving/causing foreseeable accidents while loaded, people doing dumb stuff because "hold my beer", etc...all of which I've either done, been involved with, seen first hand or had to deal with the results of, more times than I care to remember. It was a few of these come to Jesus moments that resulted in me looking at my own drinking habits; add to that the fact my job, as a rule, has me seeing end results of people that can't/shouldn't drink or use other intoxicants on a daily, sometimes hourly, basis.
Bright side, a good boss won't let that happen, reins in those that are a potential problem before they go off the rails and uses the administrative and disciplinary measures at their disposal. Gone are the days of the PER box asking "Does this member's drinking affect their work performance?".
My $0.02 pre-tax FWIW.