US military bans alcohol in Okinawa after Marine with 3 times legal blood alcohol level involved deadly car crash

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The US military has banned the consumption of alcohol for servicemembers after a US Marine struck and killed an Okinawa man in a truck where “alcohol may have been a factor,” on Sunday,according to a statement .

The US Forces Japan declared that all servicemembers “restricted to base and to their residences,” after the 21-year-old Marine’s crash. Japanese police told Reuters that the Marine had three times the legal level of alcohol in his blood at the time of the crash.

US servicemembers in Japan have bred resentment among the local population with DUI convictions and drunk-driving related deaths. About half of the US’s 50,000 troops in Japan live in Okinawa.

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