Field Sobriety Tests

I photographed law enforcement officials training to give field sobriety tests. The best way to learn to detect the signs of intoxication is to observe someone who is intoxicated, so training instructors enlist the help of volunteers from Barksdale Air Force Base to drink alcohol. From watching the volunteers, all of whom were pretty young guys, I gather that most were happy to volunteer for the assignment. Over a three hour time period they drank between no alcohol to one airman who consumed 11 shots of Jim Beam. I think I'd still be hospitalized after that. Even though no one was "falling down drunk" and composed themselves pretty well all things considered, it was a fun assignment and amusing to watch some of them walk a line.