{"id":5810,"date":"1999-10-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-10-16T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rmitchell.io\/?p=5810"},"modified":"2025-11-26T12:41:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:41:05","slug":"bac-052","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godzilla.rmitchell.io\/index.php\/1999\/10\/16\/bac-052\/","title":{"rendered":"BAC .052"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While I served in the Air Force the Commander took two ranks permanently and left me on 16 hour shifts and weekend duty for nearly a year, after a .052 BAC test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After 40 minutes of dealing with their parking lot sobriety tests they took me to have a BAC, the test came back at .052; when I saw the result I grinned and said \u201cSee, legal.\u201d  The officer chewed on a lump of bullshit for a minute and eventually said, \u201cNot on base\u201d.  Well, an adult driver in the majority of states here in the US can have a .08; there\u2019s not on-base and off-base versions of drunk.  A pilot of a tractor trailer can legally have a .04. I was driving a Chevy Cavalier on a well lit empty road sober as a bell.  I don\u2019t know who they let drive my car home; everyone else in the car was liquor drunk, I was the designated driver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two ranks permanently and left me on 16 hour shifts and weekend duty for nearly a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I served in the Air Force the Commander took two ranks permanently and left me on 16 hour shifts and weekend duty for nearly a year, after a .052 BAC test. After 40 minutes of dealing with their parking lot sobriety tests they took me to have a BAC, the test came back at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camz_chronicle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/godzilla.rmitchell.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/B1_Lancer_After_Rain.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godzilla.rmitchell.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godzilla.rmitchell.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godzilla.rmitchell.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godzilla.rmitchell.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godzilla.rmitchell.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/godzilla.rmitchell.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5813,"href":"https:\/\/godzilla.rmitchell.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810\/revisions\/5813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godzilla.rmitchell.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godzilla.rmitchell.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godzilla.rmitchell.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godzilla.rmitchell.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}