On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 21:42:35 -0500, "Engineer"
wrote:

"K-Ration" wrote in message ...

Damnit Charlie. Then ALL the bars in Korea would be off limits. No
more "steam and cream". Can you imagine Vietnam being off limits??
Everyone beating their meat to the jungle beat?? Pussy is a commodity
of war and peace. We need to be remined what we are fighting for.

Now when I was in Kimchiland, the only places put off limits were those
with high "vidokey" rates and even those came off the list once the
local medics got a piece and came out clean. At Camp Casey, they had a
Top Ten sandwich board at the main gate. Boy would mamasan be ****ed
when she found out her girls were dirty. Then she would lower the price
and you took your chances.

I was going to tell them that it had already been tried and it never worked.
Some people never learn.



What a joke - that lap-dancing would undermine the morale of US troops
in Souh Korea. You want to sap the morale of the troops block them
off from going to "the ville" and see what happens.

The entire local economies around US military installations depend on
servicemen. The US military presence in South Korea makes for a
symbiotic economic relationship with the Koreans. We need them and
they need us. The US/UN command has always turned a blind eye towards
the "other economy", and tacitly abetted it. When I was stationed in
ROK there were Army units that had over 90% VD rates.

There have been periodic attempts to clean things up, often due to
pressure from stateside morality and parents' groups who are under the
impression that their poor little babies are being corrupted by the
Korean hookers. I remember when there was a big push to clean up
the distribution of girlie mags in the AFEES but simultaneously any
US serviceman could step outside the gates (sometimes inside the gates
too) and get real women.

The US Army moving out of Yongsan in Seoul, the locals' sensitivities,
and the generaly lower visibility of US troops in South Korea are
probably driving a lot of this, or perhaps the 2nd ID just recently
got a new commander who's got a bit too much starch in his underpants.

John Hairell )
ROK 1979-81