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I wonder why...
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On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:26:29 -0500, Vic Smith
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On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:21:54 -0400, wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:45:59 -0400, HK wrote:
The draft should be reinstated, with no exemptions but for the
physically or seriously mentally challenged. That alone would put a
chill on political warmongering, because the parents of the future
draftees would want a tad more proof than the Bush Admin provided before
they sent their kids off to die for the Republican Party.
I agree we should have the draft but I am not deluded that it would
keep old men from sending young men off to war.
As for the original post, I suspect this has more to do with the fact
that they actually do have treatment for alcoholism these days. The
military was a collection of functioning alcoholics (using the current
definition) in the 60s when I was there. There wasn't much else to do
off duty but drink in Norfolk.
You were either on duty, on Gramby street or sleeping it off in your
rack. That assumed you weren't drinking government subsidized beer in
the EM club.
Yeah, but all I could get was 3.2.
--Vic
That was true in Bainbridge NTC, but not in Norfolk.
We gut the same cans of beer you got in town.
When I was at the AOQ in Gitmo 1968 (IBM trip) they had a beer machine
right in the building. (25 cents a can)
I can remember the beer being dirt cheap out of vending machines on Canadian
warships..... maybe in the late 70s.
I don't know what they pay on ship now.
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