Drew68 wrote: “But the article isn’t wrong and I’m seeing this far more frequently in the military, with young people arriving to their first duty station without a drivers license. They’ve never driven a car before. And because of this, they are unable to stand duty driver watches.”
In Korea in the seventies, many of the soldiers in my unit kept failing the international drivers license required there. They didn’t want drive off post.
We solved that problem: Present your international drivers license or no off post pass. Every one in the unit passed the test within two weeks.
“In Korea in the seventies, many of the soldiers in my unit kept failing the international drivers license required there. They didn’t want drive off post.”
I went to Korea in 1997. Company driver took me to Pohang to get my DL.
Dude at the windows didn’t know what to do, wouldn’t allow my driver to interpret the testing.
So he sent us upstairs where we met with a guy sitting at a big desk all alone in a very big room.
After a few words he made a call and sent us back downstairs.
They smiled, took my photo and handed me my driver’s license.