Thanks for your response. I was in Uijongbu S.Korea ‘66-’68 as an MP at the 55th with duty at Camp Red Cloud Hq I Corps (Gp).
We patrolled with Korean National Police, and Republic of Korea MP’s when we went on the patrols at night. We too had off limits areas, but at that time they were just off limits to any military as they were pretty rowdy areas that weren’t in compliance with specific agreements we had with Korean National Health, and the community.
It’s amazing the difference a few short years can make as we never gave a thought to what music was being played, and it was up to the locals to keep their places clean, and healthy as they didn’t want to lose the GI business.
We were always armed with loaded 45’s, and really never thought much about the fact. It was part of the uniform.
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.