OMG you mean our troops were allowed to SMOKE? But I mean, that’s SOOOOOOOOOOoooooo bad for your health!!!! (Just thought I’d impart ‘today’s emasculated male mindset’ in stark contrast to the real men of Vietnam).
I remember when cigarettes were removed from C-rats. The note in the case stated they were bad for our health. We were under fire at the time.
Sundry Packs still had cartons.
In USMC Boot Camp (1966) the Drill Instructors would line us up in formation on the Platoon Street (the path between our Quonset Huts where we bunked) and announce "Smoking Formation! Non-smokers get your toothbrushes, run to the head and brush your fangs!"
They'd hold one non-puffer back and designate him as "Ashtray"....meaning he'd hold the lid of a metal trashcan and run up and down the line of us smokers, so that we could politely tip our ashes....
(I'm guessing that around 3/4 of us were smokers)