All it takes is one idiot:

A 23-year-old sailor from the USS Ronald Reagan was arrested Thursday morning after breaking the windows on a private home and the sunroofs of two cars parked nearby, a Busan Haeundae police spokesman said.

The sailor was drunk during the 12:30 a.m. incident in a neighborhood near Busan’s Haeundae beach, the spokesman said.

The sailor was released after being questioned, and was allowed to leave South Korea with the aircraft carrier Friday morning after reaching a financial settlement with the homeowner and two car owners, he said.

Lt. Ron Flanders, spokesman for the aircraft carrier, said the sailor is a second class petty officer assigned to a helicopter anti-submarine squadron. He did not provide the sailor’s name, but said he injured his ankle during the incident and was treated at a local hospital and is now being treated aboard the ship.

The sailor paid the car owners 30,000 won each, or almost $30, and 230,000 won, or about $227, to the homeowner. He issued a formal apology to all three.

Flanders said the Reagan’s sailors are “excellent” ambassadors for their country, and 240 of the 5,000 Reagan sailors in Busan for last week’s port visit did volunteer work.

“At each stop on this deployment, business, community and government leaders have praised our sailors to their leadership for their exemplary behavior,” he said.  [Stars & Stripes]

Despite all the good work the sailors did in Busan, this one idiot has tarnished it.

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