{"id":56113,"date":"2014-10-29T16:35:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T20:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56113"},"modified":"2014-10-29T20:01:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T00:01:46","slug":"oh-for-petes-sake-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56113","title":{"rendered":"Oh, For Pete\u2019s Sake – “The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves”, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cBuy me drink, GI?\u201d Well, from now on:\u00a0 if you\u2019re stationed in Korea, in those establishments known as \u201cjuicy bars\u201d the answer damn well better be, \u201cSorry \u2013 no.\u201d<\/p>\n

How so? Well, it seems that the USFK CG just made that against regulations \u2013 and thus unlawful under Article 92, UCMJ.<\/p>\n

Seriously<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why? It seems as if some \u201cjuicy bars\u201d were suspected of being a front for, or otherwise associated with, the skin trade.<\/p>\n

No! Say it isn\u2019t so! I\u2019m shocked, shocked!\u00a0 Scandal!<\/p>\n

Hell, General, I\u2019m guessing that\u2019s been the case since not too long after the first bar of any kind on Earth opened – probably in Ancient Egypt or China. Money talks. And where there\u2019s money to be made, you\u2019ll find practitioners of trade – no matter what trade you\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n

Look, I don’t approve of the skin trade.\u00a0 I think engaging in sex-for-hire, either as a customer or a service provider, is stupid – pathetic, actually.\u00a0 And no, we shouldn’t be encouraging it.<\/p>\n

But sometimes, young men with spare $$$ (and at least some young women, too) are gonna go out looking for a temporary \u201cgood time\u201d. I don\u2019t care how many stars you have on your shoulder, you\u2019re not going to change 10,000 years or more of human behavior by making a pronouncement from on high.\u00a0 Nor are you going to end the world’s oldest profession by fiat.<\/p>\n

In my book, treating the troops as adults plus hammering miscreants when caught would be a far more effective way to deal with this. Hiring a prostitute is already against the UCMJ.<\/p>\n

The troops can deal with that; they’re adults, and deserve to be treated as such.\u00a0 Seems like their chain-of-command should be able handle the situation equally well.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s just my opinion – one obviously not shared by the guy currently in charge in Korea. These days, they seem rather to like using mass punishment in the \u201cLand of the Morning Calm\u201d<\/a> instead of providing their troops adult leadership.<\/p>\n

I’m pretty sure the USFK leadership has any number of more important things to worry about than Joe buying a bar girl a drink, anyway.\u00a0 If they don’t . . . well, then maybe they just don’t really need to be Generals any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cBuy me drink, GI?\u201d Well, from now on:\u00a0 if you\u2019re stationed in Korea, in those establishments known as \u201cjuicy bars\u201d the answer damn well better be, \u201cSorry \u2013 no.\u201d How so? Well, it seems that the USFK CG just made that against regulations \u2013 and thus unlawful under Article 92, UCMJ. Seriously. Why? It seems […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,220,213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-eB3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}