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Subject: The War Against Vice In South Korea
SYSOP    8/19/2014 6:21:22 AM
 
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keffler25       8/19/2014 8:59:36 AM
Peace time mickey mouse. Cigarettes BAD. Booze BAD. Sex BAD. 
 
The troops are the troops. WW II experience, cigarettes were known health risks, but calm troops puffing tobacco are better than jittery men with automatic weapons or trying to serve artillery where a simple math error could lead to instant disaster.  
 
Air crews back from a mission (any war) have just survived being clay pigeons for everything out there. More than even tank crews, they draw fire and everyone with half a brain tries to kill them. They can't get high on dope of any kind, because it addles the brain. An airplane can be flown or fixed by a man with a hangover, NOT with a marijuana induced delayed buzz.    
 
Human beings have biochemistry, some of it intended to reinforce reproductive behavior. Train men to kill and they will find their biochemistry altered all across the board. They THINK differently. You want to tell a sexual animal to do without?
 
Tension has to have a release. Wartime leaders quickly learn that the troops will have wine and women, (and song) or there will be a mutiny. Peacetime leaders, the good ones, who have to deal with cold war garrisons face much the same problems.   
 
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COL Tentpeg    Hackworth   8/19/2014 11:45:23 AM
Think what you will of the man, but didn't COL Hackworth set up a bar on his firebase in Vietnam? He forbid the men from visiting the local bar/brothels and to fill the void (heh heh) he built one on post with partygirls who were regularly tested by army medical personnel. Saved everyone a lot of headaches according to him. Not that the army would do such a thing these days.
 
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ka5s       8/19/2014 10:07:09 PM
At Fort Riley in the early 1960's, I heard that on the 8th Army Patch, each sector stood for a different kind of VD.
 
 
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Gerry       8/19/2014 11:38:19 PM


Not that the army would do such a thing these days.

I believe the French during the Korean war had their own "traveling" brothels to help with the war effort. Kept very quiet but the troops on the front lines enjoyed it and the girl made a lot of money. Its often the sense of morality by the "folks" back home , who have no understanding of a year alone without companionship that upsets the moral fortitude expected of only a priest.
 
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