Poll

[Sgt Schmidt]

How many of you think vets who file for IHD due to AO exposure will be denied because thay smoke.

[Pete53]

The EM clubs all over served anyone who had cash to pay for their drinks. I have a problem with not allowing any service member to drink no matter what their age.

[Commander Bob]

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Edited January 28, 2010 by Commander Bob

[Sgt Schmidt]

The EM clubs all over served anyone who had cash to pay for their drinks. I have a problem with not allowing any service member to drink no matter what their age.

Pete, I agree with you 100% about the drinking age for service men & woman.

Jeff

[Sgt Schmidt]

How about the EM clubs in Vietnam. They poured out the alcohol to anyone who walked in the door. US law in 1969 said you could not drink until you were 21. The Army served alcohol to us 19 year olds until we were so drunk we could not walk. If you were at some big military base you could get drunk every night of the week as long as you showed up for work. The military smiled on alcoholism, but tried to smash the guy who smoked a joint. The military was full of drunks back in the day. The army condoned drinking alcohol, and yet they punish those who become alcoholics. Drugs poured onto American bases during the last days of the Vietnam war. I see it as an environmental hazard like AO. I remember people telling me the white powder in the little bottles was "coke" and harmless fun. That was until a guy from Philly told me it was heroin. I knew many junkies in Vietnam who never even got close to hard drugs in the World. Many of those poor guys got stuck with undesireable discharges because they failed a piss test. Nobody tested for the alcohol that was embalming the senior NCO's and officers.

Maybe that's why I look so young at 60 years old. :)

Jeff

[Commander Bob]

*Flash Back*.......Drinking 3.2 beer at the "Beer Hall" at age 17. Hawaii