I believe that there is still no alcohol allowed on any US Navy ship. They had/have medicinal brandy if you fell in (falling in at Gitmo didn't count)to warm you up or were on deck exposed to very cold weather for a long time.
1,802 posted on 05/01/2003 5:02:58 PM PDT by Grampa Dave
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