Navy encourages sailors to bonk

[Dumsoda]

Go the Crows!!!!

 

To quote GK...

 

FARKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

 

Cheers DC

 

[Torneyboy]

Its occured to me after watching people like Sarah Palin who states that the war in Iraq is a mission from God and all the full on Christians involved in the military that sending a boat load of sailors to Pattaya is a tad hypocritical.

 

"Mission from God"..sounds like the Blues Brothers are back in town..

[Torneyboy]

That crowd will be more than the NRL finals together ..they love sport down there :thumbup:

[eyebee]

Err... can you Aussies speak English, please!

[USVirgin]

I haven't witnessed Cobra Gold, but from what I saw in Patong a couple of years ago and from what I've heard from Marines stationed here at Camp Pendleton, a bit of fun is still an option but rowdiness is not.

 

First time I saw Bugis Street, 25 years ago, it was a different picture. Seemed hard to have a drink there without getting inadvertently caught up in a ruckus. Most of the sailors appeared to be from Australia.

 

Shame Singapore cleaned that place up. Sailors and ladyboys - Bugis St. had plenty of character in a nation that really lacks it.

[Faustian]

I would think sailors wouldn't need any encouragement to bonk

[The_Munchmaster]

....Shame Singapore cleaned that place up. Sailors and ladyboys - Bugis St. had plenty of character in a nation that really lacks it.

Australia?

 

[unit731]

Since I don't see a single vet posting in this thread, I'll jump in (but not shout Geronimo).

 

The US Navy discourages sailors and Marines from running wild on shore leave these days. It's not at all like the fun it used to be. No more trashing bars. No more punching up your mates. No more shagging your brains out with loose women.

 

Of course, whether the matelots behave themselves is another matter.

 

 

I have been aboard a ship. I have been granted Liberty. And I have been to Pattaya. And one of my traveling mates did, in fact, marry a Witch!

 

 

http://news.spreadit.org/palin-witchcraftsarah-palin-thomas-muthee-witch-video/

 

 

 

That makes me an expert on this subject.

[chuck6660]

Since I don't see a single vet posting in this thread, I'll jump in (but not shout Geronimo).

 

The US Navy discourages sailors and Marines from running wild on shore leave these days. It's not at all like the fun it used to be. No more trashing bars. No more punching up your mates. No more shagging your brains out with loose women.

 

Of course, whether the matelots behave themselves is another matter.

 

Actually, participating in P4P is now a violation of Article 134 of the Uniformed Code of Military Justice (UCMJ):

 

DOD specifies hiring prostitutes as a crime

ARLINGTON, Va. â?? For the first time, the Department of Defense has specifically made it a crime for a servicemember to patronize a prostitute. The punishment:

up to a year in prison, forfeiture of pay and dishonorable discharge. The formal order came in a presidential executive order signed without fanfare Oct. 14, directing changes in theManual for Courts-Martial. It is part of an assault the military has been waging

against human trafficking. A Defense Department spokeswoman, Lt. Col. Ellen Krenke,

said in an e-mailed response to questions that â??prostitutionâ? and â??panderingâ? will now be among the offenses covered by Article 134 of the courts-martial manual. Paying for sex used to fall under the â??Solicitation of Another to Commit an Offenseâ? listed as part of Article 134, which executes the corresponding section in the Uniform Code of Military

Justice, Krenke said. It prohibits â??all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good

order and discipline in the armed forcesâ? and â??all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces.â? But the October executive order makes prostitution and pandering specific offenses, she said. Krenke said that the DOD made the change as part of its effort to combat human trafficking by taking on the sex exploitation industry, as set forth in a December 2002 National Security Presidential Directive that says in part:

â??Our policy is based on an abolitionist approach to trafficking in persons, and our efforts must involve a comprehensive attack on such trafficking, which is a modern day of slavery. In this regard, the U.S. Government opposes prostitution and any related activities, including pimping, pandering, or maintaining brothels as contributing to the phenomenon of trafficking in persons.â? The military needs to change its general mind-set that tolerates prostitution, said Sara Mendelson, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies inWashington. Mendelson, author of a report on human trafficking and peacekeeping in the Balkans, said the military needs to get the word out

about the change on prostitution to make it effective. â??The issues is not whether activists

or experts in Washington, D.C., know about it, itâ??s whether the soldier in the field understands; itâ??s whether the commander in the field understands that this is a change from the previous regulation in the Manual for Courts-Martial,â? she said. As early as November 2004, the services began to write online training courses that cover prostitution within the framework of human trafficking, Krenke said. Krenke said it teaches that â??you donâ??t have to be a professional criminal to contribute to the trafficking industry. You aid and encourage trafficking in persons without engaging in it directly, by

hiring a prostitute.â? While the change to the courts-martial manual makes it clearer that prostitution is illegal, Marine commanders from he top down already know that prostitution is a punishable offense and have taken steps to combat it, wrote Marine Corps spokesman Maj. Douglas Powell via e-mail. â??Marines are briefed by their

commanders, especially those who are deploying overseas, that they should not engage in prostitution,â? Powell said.

 

[Julian2]

â??Marines are briefed by their commanders, especially those who are deploying overseas, that they should not engage in prostitution,â? Powell said.

 

Oh well, all the more for those that do.

I wonder if the "I never paid her for sex, I paid her to go away the next morning" defence would work?