Smoking ban in U.S. military?

[Lonestar]

You know this is impossible Dis. I agree that there is nothing wrong with selling them at market price, but by your logic a sailor should bring everything he needs for six months and we can just close the ship store altogether.

I knew a EM1 who set up a fridge in the electrical shop and brought in a, well, "mountain" of Rockstar energy drink on a dolley the week before my second deployment.

We also had a Chaplain who had an evening prayer that went thusly: "Oh Lord, please open SH1's heart and make him see that we want something other than Mountain Dew and Pepsi products in the gedunk machine. Maybe Orange Soda? Snapple? I worry the devil will enter my heart and horrible things might happen if no variety is given."

[Patroklos]

We also had a Chaplain who had an evening prayer that went thusly: "Oh Lord, please open SH1's heart and make him see that we want something other than Mountain Dew and Pepsi products in the gedunk machine. Maybe Orange Soda? Snapple? I worry the devil will enter my heart and horrible things might happen if no variety is given."

HA! Awesome

In general we carried Diet Coke, Coca Cola, Root Beer (A&W or Mug, depending on what the area had available), Sprite, Cherry Pepsi (for some reason you can't get cherry coke in 5th fleet) and Mountain Dew. We had Red Bull in a fridge unit in the ship store, and surprisingly we never had trouble getting hits for it during UNREPS. Diet Coke and Mountain Dew were the big sellers.

On our predeployment loadout I would pack the storerooms with Mountain Dew Code Red, grape soda, orange soda, Yahoo and capri suns as you can't get them overseas. They last about a month and a half. You can preorder a conex box full of similar stores that will meet you halfway through deployment onboard an MSC ship, but it is hit or miss as to whether you will ever actually meet up with that shipment, I never did.

[zakubandit]

When I was in Korea and we would be out at field problems for 30 days I would usually bring a couple cartons. My TC and my gunner would fill our coffin (a sponson box on the back of our tank attached to the cargo area on the turret) will tons of ice and then meats for bbq, deli meat for sandwhichs, cheese, so on and so forth. We had another box we attached to the turret that we kept bread, snacks, whatever else in there. Having a tank as your RV for the field makes things so much easier. Hot water in the winter, places to keep your food, shielded from the weather, a heated matress when you sleep on the back deck. But the best, the driver and his rat hole. But anyways, when we ran out of stuff we always had our Ma. She was an old Korean lady who traveled with us and set up a tent in our AA. Makes food and coffee whenever you want, even at 2 or 3am, but we usually didn't disturb her then. Had fridges for cold bottled drinks. Cigarettes, phone cards, and the best part is we got to run up a tab and pay after the field problem. Our CO made it a rule that each platoon sets a limit by rank for each soldiers. As joes it was low, but after I got my stripes it was upped to a hundred and fifty.

[Joseph]

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[Joseph]

We were on an Operation with about 100 ships near Taiwan 1964. It was night time and we were under darken Ship orders. Some guy on a ship 4 to 6000 yards from us started to smoke topside. I was on watch and saw it, and then told the OD. It was like the guy was standing next to us. The OD call his ship and reported him.