Possibly that's because there are so many females in the military today. Males and females working side by side in sometimes very stressful conditions builds a of a lot of sexual tension, and there isn't a "No fraternizing" rule that can keep people from hooking up. These old dudes are talking about the military in the olden days where guys would go months without seeing a female.
You had to pay to post here?Avante, another brilliant job.
You, my friend are the ultimate Puppet Master.
You figured out that this place is like a Jerry Springer audience and EVERY thread you start gets them frothing at the mouth - even as they kick and scream in denial that they willingly PAID to be in that audience.
Bravo, my friend.
Your reinstatement makes more sense now.
.... This is so true. Dem Korean chicks like white guys I saiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiidddddddddddddddddddddddddd ddddddddd
Can't speak for seamen (lol Navy) but the commanders on our Army base made a habit of looking the other way and some (like my 1st Sgt) even encouraged it. Granted, this was 10 years ago, but I can hardly imagine it's changed much. Plus, it's legal in Korea, and yes, they do have to be licensed and checked out regularly.
Still didn't pay for it, though, but many did
Air Force? Yeah... Army/Marines? No, and I had a buddy who was a medic and he told me the s were cleaner than the (almost always disgusting) Army chicks. Army girls, no matter how gross, still always had their pick because the ratio was massively in their favor. When a broad was in Korea the term for it in the Army was "Queen for a year"
Let me put it like this... When I was at Camp Stanley in Korea, the on-base club was called the 9 to 1 (not really, but that's what everybody called it, so much so that I couldn't tell you what it's real name was
lol trying to keep your post count down since you've gotten destroyed lately....haven't seen you post as much since everyone ted on you for having no life
lol slavishly keeping track of my every movelol trying to keep your post count down since you've gotten destroyed lately....haven't seen you post as much since everyone ted on you for having no life
lol pay for post
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I hope you get trapped underneath a prison bus tomorrow and it explodeslol trying to keep your post count down since you've gotten destroyed lately....haven't seen you post as much since everyone ted on you for having no life
I remember being skeptical about the stories the old salts were telling when I made my first WESTPAC. A year out of high school, had never been in a bar much less making it will strangers. It did seem like a lot of bull to me. I couldn't have been more wrong. 19 years old in a world so unlike anything I had ever seen, what a trip. So many memories.
Taking the ferry from Hong Kong across the bay to Kowloon, passing all those junks, an actual floating neighborhood. Eating monkey meat (cat? dog? rat?) on the streets of Olongopo in the Phillipines. Tosssing coins to little boys with a net standing in a boat on river with a girl in tights who would show you a boob as a thank you. The Barbarella Club in Singapore, The Red Noodle on Wikiki.
There me and a couple buddies sat at a table at The Red Noodle drinking and checking out the scenary when the house band started playing...
...talk about the perfect song. A few weeks later I heard that tune on the radio. I thought..."well I'll be damn they recorded it"....hahahahaha!!!!! Took me awhile to figure out they were covering The Looking Glass hit. I'd never heard it before. So many memories. There were seven of us who ran together, after we all got out we stayed in touch for a coupe years then we all just faded away.
Yo avante, what year did all this occur in?
Korea had a red-light district in practically any city with a significant population. You would walk down a street and look in the window and see a bunch of girls just sitting around waiting either for a call from a hotel (where you could order them like room service) or I guess you could walk right in and get whatever you wanted. There were also 'full' service barber shops where you could tell exactly what they offered by how many barber shop poles were spinning out in front. Plenty of guys in my unit told 'war stories' about their experiences, not to mention the fact that it appeared to be ingrained into their culture. It's such a male dominated world over there, very bizarre when you're from a place like the US.
My Dad has some wild stories about Bangkok when he was flying B52's out of Thailand during Nam, and he was an Air Force officer. The scenery has probably changed, but I doubt the military men and the legions of s that pop up wherever they go in asia have at all.
I went in at 19 (almost 20) or 1969 did my 4 years so...69-late 1973. I was off the coast of Viet Nam when my time was up. It took me two weeks to get to San Francisco and processing. I was heloed off the USS Horne to the USS Ranger an aircraft carrier. Jetted off that to Kobe Japan, caught a C-5 (cargo plane) to Luzon Phillipines. Caught a jumbo jet from there to Hawaii. Then another jet to San Franciso, then a Greyhound to Visalia where I was from. During that trek, football games in Kobe, poker games in Luzon, a few drunk nights at Wikiki. Keep in mind I had to wait on whatever was going my way, there was no master plane to get this sailor home. I actually walked in the door of my parents house on Christmas morning. What were the odds?
I want to point out the S.Korea isn't some 3rd world hole. It was an awesome, technologically advanced place with really nice people and loads of stuff to do. There are a lot of re s around here who will probably think it's like Bangkok or Vietnam or some like that. Couldn't be farther from the truth.
Made some great friends and can't wait to go back as a civilian. I've even considered going expat and teaching English over there for a few years. Would be amazing to live in Seoul. Most badass city I've ever been in, and that includes any/all American cities
We were in Korea but all I can remember was the cold, it was another kind of cold. Totally different than anything I knew existed. We stood 20 minute watchs instead of the hour with rotating from one watch to the other. Yep, so cold nobody could stay out doors for more than 20 and that was way too long, thought I was going to freeze to death, ing cold!!!!!!! I must not have went over for some reason or we were just there to refuel. I would imagine the Korean women a little more life size. Those Chinese women made you feel ike John Holmes, they were so delicate and tiny.
Like you mentioned the memories/stories, it really was something else. Those who never experienced that world would be a little.."sure ya did"...I can understand that, it does seem more fantasy than realty.
The winter I was there wasn't too terribly bad (by Korean standards), but there were a few Siberian cold fronts that came through that brought high's in the single digits with wind chills wayyyyy below 0 and winds at 20-40 miles an hour. When you got there they issued "bear suits", which was cold weather gear rated to 40 below. We were in the field along the Imjin river for one of those cold snaps, but luckily I was Artillery so we had vehicles to go to after we pulled guard and of course they had heaters. Running ops in that wind/cold/snow was . We would watch the ROK infantry marching around in that and I'm not sure I've ever felt so sorry for anyone in my life. They would have a 5 ton trailing behind to pick up the frostbite victims and their NCO's carried sticks to whack the dudes who fell out of formation. They lived in patrol bases (outdoors in foxholes) and would sleep in groups of 3 and 4 for heat. Insanity.
When there are a million angry N.Koreans on the other side of the border waiting for the balloon to go up, gets real. Those ROK mother ers were badass. Read about them in action in S.Vietnam if you wanna know exactly how hardcore they are. If you wanna know about the cold, read about the US retreat from the Yalu river (battle of chosin reservoir) in the Korean War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chosin_Reservoir
On 14 November, a cold front from Siberia descended over the Chosin Reservoir, and the temperature plunged to as low as −35 °F(−37 °C).[37] The cold weather was accompanied by frozen ground, creating considerable danger of frostbite casualties, icy roads, and weapon malfunctions. Medical supplies froze; morphine surettes had to be defrosted in a medic's mouth before it could be injected; frozen blood plasma was useless on the battlefield.
I find those kinds of stories very interesting, like I mentioned above I think of Korea I start....burrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Am I making too much of this, it is cold there, right?
Read above ^
I can remember going on formation runs and coming back with little icicles hanging off my nose because sweat would freeze virtually as soon as it came out of your pores
I will read that, my dad fought in the Korean War. He didn't like to talk about it.
As I racked my brain I'm thinking we only stopped in Korea to refuel, I know for certain we weren't there long and there was no way I'm staying on board, I'd ge a standby if I had the duty. I can see your stay there made a huge impact.
You were probably in Pusan which is at the southern tip of the peninsula. Inchon can't handle big surface ships, iirc
Good song. Too bad it was the band's only hit.
Makes you wonder what happened to them. Who knows what the flip side of the record was?
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go in that pussy raw with no worries.
*pats you on the back*
congrats, you predicted someting a predictable person would do and guess what, YOU WERE RIGHT!!!!!
It's really not like that but I get what you're trying to say.
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