Posted on 07/17/2012 2:01:23 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
I was at Casey in 73/74. The Courtesy Patrol was a duty roster thing. Usually got it every six weeks or so. CP was my first exposure to political correctness. Our Div Cdr was big on eliminating any appearance of discrimination. All the clubs off post had to play one country western song, one pop song, one black song and one hispanic song in that order. Then they could take a free pick from any of the categories. Of course, the only place this was ignored was in the “all black” club. This club wasn’t formally all black. It’s just that the patrons would beat up any white guy who showed up.
I guess the finest moment was when the CG put out instructions to all CP that they would assist any solder who thought any ‘business girl’ was refusing to provide him ‘business’ because of his race, that the CP was to instruct said ‘business’ girl that such refusal was against US law. I told the OIC for the CP that I would not get involved in the negotiations between a ‘business’ girl and her client. Furthermore, I told him that until he showed me the US law that regulated prostitution in a foreign country, I would consider this instruction to be unlawful and would ignore it. The matter was promptly dropped.
“Time to leave. BTW, why are we still in Germany, the Balkans, Afghanistan, etc, etc...”
Airbases? Power projection? Logistics?
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