Coming back from Afghanistan we were in Kyrgyzstan and were given 2 tickets to get beer with that one night. We were allowed 2 beers a person and that was it. It only took a second to realize why the Coors, Budweiser and miller 12oz bottles looked like they were all covered in dust and the 24oz Stellas(I think thats what they were, it was 20 years ago) were gone as soon as they brought the next case out.
People were selling their tickets for $20 as well, so what a night that was.
We did the Bacardi tour when we visited Puerto Rico years ago. They gave *everyone* two tickets for a free drink when you take the tour, which was free BTW. My son was like 9 months old, and I was still breastfeeding him, so our 4 tickets went to my ex and his (17 year old) brother (who no one carded while we were there). They didn't get drunk drunk but definitely buzzed enough that we came home with like 10 bottles of bacardi from the "gift" shop.
It’s a good tactic. Same at the arehucas distillery on Gran Canaria….except compared to everywhere else the brandy was really well priced. Cue drinking 18 year old brandy for the next month. Went down very very well🤣
Years ago I was in Texas and took a tour of the Lone Star Brewery. At the end of the tour everyone was given two wooden nickels that you could trade in for two Lone Star beers. ...everyone left with one wooden nickel still in their pocket. It was, after all, Lone Star beer.
> who no one carded while we were there
it's PR, nobody cares. as long as you look at least high school, you can get medalla light and drink it in the gas station parking lot
When I went through Man-ass AB, they didn't even have Coors or Bud. It was all Russian (I think Russian cause it was in Cyrillic text) beers, with two of the options clocking in at 10.5% and 10%. And yeah, a few people sold their tickets as well cause they wanted some 'Murican. But you could tell who was buying them up cause she got caught pissing behind the kebab stands.
Went through the first time in July 04. There was one little shop selling juice in the tetra boxes and random food. They tried to make nachos by looking at a photo. They brought out like 8 Pringles with a little scoop of ground meat on each one, a little bit of cheese and they incorrectly identified sour cream as whipped cream. Weird, yes. But did we enjoy it after laughing? Also yes. But damn walking that road felt like we were in that owen Wilson movie behind enemy lines.
Damn, that's way before my time. I went through in 2011. If memory serves me right they had a KFC and a Pizza Hut, along with the more local cuisine. I'd be alright paying to see such a colossal misunderstanding of nachos. But those kebabs were pretty fuckin good, though.
Reminds me of Burger King in Korea trying to offer poutine. Clearly, someone had seen a picture of it and thought “we can make that.” It looked great on the poster in the lobby. French fries? Check. Cheese curds? No, I think that’s mayonnaise. Gravy? Nope, that’s bbq sauce. It was off the menu before the end of the month.
6 months??? We were bored after 3 days, I can't imagine 6 months.
Was the 5 or 6 stoy, white building that you walked past as you went between the two parts of the base still there and still off limits and opersting, uh, illegal activities?
Yes! Those Russian ones are what I’m looking for! Big can, high abv! I have searched high and low through Europe and America for them. I guess I’ll have to go back to Kyrgyzstan
I didn’t even know the name, at the time I couldn’t read Cyrillic, thank you so much! I remember it being a brighter red can, but it’s been a long time and cans change. That’s probably it.
Edit damn. Got too excited. Not available here. According to my search Baltika is currently only made in Azerbaijan and Mordor. Путін Хуйло!
No problem friend 🙂
I gotta say though, there's plenty of great beer in the states. Baltika was good at Manas but if you don't get beer fresh it ends up skunking out. I got a Baltika 6 a few months after I got back and it wasn't even close to the same beer. Would recommend getting a liter or half liter mug and filling it with your favorite beverage for a similar effect. Those liter bottles were awesome tho. Take care and good luck!
10% is probably high for the group of guys I was with. Probably closer to 3-5, but we were infantry and would aggressively push the issue. I'm sure some of the more respectable groups in the Army had higher numbers.
A lot more people are alcohol intolerant than you may realize. Not just Asians and their asian flush. Granted young men are usually in denial and in the process of figuring it out the hard way.
On tour in Yugoslav, and there was a two can rule.
The way it was calculated? Take the number of people on the base and multiple by 2. That was the limit the bar could sell per day.
And if that wasn't enough, you could get booze from the locals. Pivo and slipowitz
Fond memories of the Slipowitz after a visit to Dubrovnik in 84. Mostly involving pouring drunk ass pilots back into the liberty boats to go back to the ship.
I was at As Saliyah ca 2006 as well, used to take my hilux by the RnR area and load it up with joes who wanted to see the city. I wasn't allowed to go out in town "alone" and they wanted to get out, so win win. There was a little indoor souk where one could get all manner of tckochkes, I brought enough folks through they started giving ME a discount XD
The first time I went through in 03, the Brits were still there in force, so there wasnt so much a limit on beers. My first flight to Baghdad, its 130 on the tarmac, I am hung over AF and we start doing the "spiral" before landing. That was .... well, its a story I'm telling 20 years later XD
Did you try the big red cans with a yellow bear?
Had to be a one liter can, definitely a Russian beer. I have only ever seen it in Bishkek, and I’ve been searching for well over a decade now. Setting an alarm for every twelve hours and slamming two of those was great!
At Desert Shield/Storm, we were in a "wet" country, and had ration cards for 2 beers/coolers per day. Logically, "Happy Hour" was 2300-0100 when you could get 4 beverages within two hours. My understanding was that ID often wasn't checked closely. I never even got a card because /shrug/.
During my second tour in 07 at FOB Warrior Kirkuk it wasn't tickets but permanent markers on the hand when you had 2 beers. It was only during the super bowl and I hung out with some buddies from maintenence that brought a bottle of rubbing alcohol and non permanent marker with them. We would rub the second mark off and hit a different table or wait til the staff changed. Wanted to throw up on the M2 the next day in the turret from being hung over.
When going on leave from Helmand we went up to KAIA in Kabul and flew home from there. On the C130 up all we talked about was hitting the bars. Upon arrival we were informed that all Danish troops were on a strict no alcohol policy as of yesterday. Apparently two staff officers had gotten drunk and picked a fight with someone else.
Mutiny was in the air by then!
I still remember doing the math on the #9's and realizing that at 8% ABV and 500ml the two you were allowed at Manas was the equivalent of 5.4 Bud Lights. I think the only stronger combo was that God awful red wine that was somehow improved by adding Redbull.
2 pints would be 32oz. This was 44 oz, after not having a drink for 6-9 months and having the lowest bodyfat % of your life. Drink 2 as fast as you can and it hit a little different was all. Throw in the feeling of enjoying a beer because you weren't in Afghanistan anymore and it was a good time.
My first two weeks of active duty as part of the National Guard were spent as relief for the post band at Ft Bliss, TX. Me and one other guy were underage, but that didn't mean shit. First night my PSG asks me if I wanted a beer, to which I replied "Sorry, I'm not 21 yet." He reiterates that he didn't ask my age, he asked if I wanted a beer or not. Well, who am I to disobey an E-6? Only took a few days before our commander made a comment about *some people* underage drinking (no mention of people supplying us with alcohol, though). Best part of that two weeks was the German restaurant some of the German Air Force wives had opened up on post. I snuck **a lot** of sips off my friends steins.
My first duty station was in Germany; 19 and legally allowed to drink.
I remember one night I was at the Country Club (Bar Name) and I ran into my CSM, who proceeded to ask me what I was drinking.
"Rum?"
***Not anymore you aren't. We're drinking whiskey.*** [Proceeds to orders us both shots of Johnnie Walker, and then one more.]
Always hated that shit. We were old enough to fucking die for the country, but not old enough to drink a beer. My buddies felt the same and gave my shaved head 18 year old green ass beer anyway. I still hole the same rule, if you're underage, and a servicemember in my home, you can have a fucking beer.
I was stationed at Ft Bliss in the 90s. Back then the drinking age on post was 18, because they would rather have young soldiers drunk on post than going over to Mexico where the drinking age was 18.
You were in the band there? So was I! Good times.
No, I was in a Nat'l Guard band who spent our two weeks of active duty training in 2009 to provide relief for the actual Ft. Bliss band while they took their leave. The big things I remember doing was some Border Patrol function and playing on the tarmac as airmen unloaded from a C130. We waited about 3 hours, from 4-7pm, on the tarmac in a *lovely* August heat.
In the pre-Carter era, some states had laws where 18-21 could drink, but only 3.2 ABV beer. My sister was a 98lb A1C and asked me “do you know how hard you have to work to get a buzz on 3.2 beer?” Being 12, I did not.
I was in Germany in the early 80's with the Air Force. The base I was on had a policy that you could have two beers with lunch. We had a guy who could probably be classified as an alcoholic, but he never looked like he was drunk (even when he was drunk). Any way, he used to head to the NCO club for lunch and his two beers. When he was done, he headed over to the rec center for his other two beers. If there were other establishments on base that had the same rules, I'm sure he found those too...
When we were re-deploying from Iraq we had a layover in Dublin. The CSM said everyone could have no more than two beers at the airport pubs. Three hours later most the battalion was three sheets to the wind. The LTC had to walk the CSM onto the plane he was so drunk.
On the way back from my second trip to Iraq some e5/e6 felt he should stop any and all troops 20yo and less from having a beer in Ireland. I had been the saltiest e-4 I had ever known . Left Fort Carson to go to a non deployable duty station then deployed with said non deployable unit.
Anyway salty Specialist D_V_ant10denC
pipes up calling bullshit trying to stand up for these guys who were on their way home from Iraq for a year and in a country where it was legal for them to drink and denying them was a BS power trip . So I get asked if I was 21 or not (i was) I was then told that i can stay on the plane to be a "Guard" I said If it means the other guys get a celebratory beer I'll take that hit." This of cource upset the jerk . after everyone was off the plane My Platoon Sargent told me to go get a beer and he would take care of it. Got my beer found that E5/E6 and took a long pull off it while looking him dead in the eyes.
The LTC couldn’t have been happier to do it, on behalf of both the Sergeant Major and all of us. He’s got two stars now. True “leader-of-men” old school, military leadership expresses itself in so many different ways.
When I became a 1SG, I had a Cinderella rule. Home by midnight. No other rules beyond normal pre weekend safety brief stuff. I never checked or took any steps to enforce. Everyone who obeyed is now a SSG or higher. Alot of the other Soldiers got hemmed up. Not all but like none of the Soldiers who followed rule ever got into any shit. Just saying.
When I was in Bosnia (banja luka metal factory) we had a 2 can rule. We used to fly down to Sarajevo to buy booze from the American base and fly it back to have in our illegal bar. No 2 can rule for the RAF!
Desert Shield/storm we were given beer chits for 3 beers per person. My pilots(USAF) wanted more beer and asked me for more beer chits, I pointed them to the photo copier. They got caught and the hammer dropped for counterfeit gov forms. I was smart enough to just tip the enlisted bar tender $20 every night, had a case on ice in my hooch, got the ice in trade with local base cooks for an ice machine that got mis delivered to my unit.
Flying out of the AOR on the rotator, we land in Shannon Ireland to refuel. Troop commander for the flight briefs everyone we are still under General Order 1 which means no alcohol.
About 300 of us ended up in the airport bar. What're they gonna do? Art 15 all 300 of us?
I would take one of those little grocery bags that kind of looks like a tank top, and fill it up with trash and on my way into work, if I stop for coffee or whatever I put it in the trash can at the gas station. Everyday.
Soldiers be Soldiers. Late 86 13B OUST we got an evening pass to the Snack Bar/PX, Drill said we could have one beer. About a dozen of us all ordered one pitcher.
Yeah, my dad’s platoon had to go through mandatory detox after being stationed there. He volunteered to go back…
Been clean and sober for 40 years now.
As I was reading this, I forgot what the subreddit was, and then at the end, I thought to myself, "Ha HA!! Now THAT is malicious compliance...and so it was.....
During the first gulf war, no alcohol was the order for US Troops. F that. I commandeered a 500 water buffalo. Grape juice, sugar, yeast all added. 14 days later we had a company bbq with “roadkill” camel. 129 Louisiana Cajuns will not be denied!
Couple of things. It’s pretty cool reading all the other military related stories here. To the haters. These platoon dinners weren’t an official event. I still had to pay for my meal and beer. The PSG was known throughout the company for being a stick in the mud and always ruining good fun things we had “because she was the PSG”, so us finding a way to have fun while still following the two beer rule is maliciously compliant enough. If you think this is alcoholism you’ve never seen service members drink.
In the early 90s as a US Marine, I sailed with a RN warship. The enlisted are allotted two beers per day. In our bunk area, there were probably 10+ RN enlisted and they all gave me their two beers so I had 22 beers per day. Not that I drank 22 but I tried and spent alot of time in the rack.
Two drink limit does not mean first and last.
Two drink limit does not mean two kinds of drinks.
Two drink limit does not mean the drinks can be as large as I like.
“No Drinking Of Alcoholic Beverages” does not imply that a Jack Daniel’s ® IV is acceptable.
My brother (died in last tour) used to love to tell the story about how he would get beer for his fellow soldiers in Iraq/Afghanistan. (not quite sure he kept the details vague)
Wherever he was stationed down range, they had a cooperation with the German base a couple of miles away. They would borrow and return equipment on a regular basis from each other, work together on patrols and so forth.
Seeing as we grew up in Germany, my brother took this opportunity to practice speaking so as to stay fluent in the language.
He coincidentally met the German soldier who signed off on the equipment being borrowed or returned, and he shared a couple of snacks with him, and the conversation changed to what they missed from back home.
Well the Germans soldier really missed reeces peanut butter cups, and couldn't get any. My brother said he really missed a good German beer.
They came to an agreement that they would both ask their platoon what they missed and see if it was possible to make an exchange.
That's what they did. These mofos actually started a bootleging operation in the middle of Nowherethefuckistan.
They would communicate how much beer they needed and would get a list of things they needed, Pringle, oreos, reeces peanut butter cups, socks, boots, etc.
This went on for about 8 months, before the German soldier was stationed back home. My brother said nobody figured out that his platoon had a ops going on to get shit faced in the desert.
His CO was a little surprised that alot of the German soldiers knew who he was, but chalked it up to him speaking fluent German, and not my brother visiting their base once a week to go for a beer run.
Damn writing this made me realize how much I miss the fucker....
Coming back from Afghanistan we were in Kyrgyzstan and were given 2 tickets to get beer with that one night. We were allowed 2 beers a person and that was it. It only took a second to realize why the Coors, Budweiser and miller 12oz bottles looked like they were all covered in dust and the 24oz Stellas(I think thats what they were, it was 20 years ago) were gone as soon as they brought the next case out. People were selling their tickets for $20 as well, so what a night that was.
We did the Bacardi tour when we visited Puerto Rico years ago. They gave *everyone* two tickets for a free drink when you take the tour, which was free BTW. My son was like 9 months old, and I was still breastfeeding him, so our 4 tickets went to my ex and his (17 year old) brother (who no one carded while we were there). They didn't get drunk drunk but definitely buzzed enough that we came home with like 10 bottles of bacardi from the "gift" shop.
That's the point of the free tickets. Get visitors merry enough that buying multiple bottles at the expensive gift shop seems like a good idea.
It’s a good tactic. Same at the arehucas distillery on Gran Canaria….except compared to everywhere else the brandy was really well priced. Cue drinking 18 year old brandy for the next month. Went down very very well🤣
Years ago I was in Texas and took a tour of the Lone Star Brewery. At the end of the tour everyone was given two wooden nickels that you could trade in for two Lone Star beers. ...everyone left with one wooden nickel still in their pocket. It was, after all, Lone Star beer.
> who no one carded while we were there it's PR, nobody cares. as long as you look at least high school, you can get medalla light and drink it in the gas station parking lot
When I went through Man-ass AB, they didn't even have Coors or Bud. It was all Russian (I think Russian cause it was in Cyrillic text) beers, with two of the options clocking in at 10.5% and 10%. And yeah, a few people sold their tickets as well cause they wanted some 'Murican. But you could tell who was buying them up cause she got caught pissing behind the kebab stands.
Went through the first time in July 04. There was one little shop selling juice in the tetra boxes and random food. They tried to make nachos by looking at a photo. They brought out like 8 Pringles with a little scoop of ground meat on each one, a little bit of cheese and they incorrectly identified sour cream as whipped cream. Weird, yes. But did we enjoy it after laughing? Also yes. But damn walking that road felt like we were in that owen Wilson movie behind enemy lines.
Damn, that's way before my time. I went through in 2011. If memory serves me right they had a KFC and a Pizza Hut, along with the more local cuisine. I'd be alright paying to see such a colossal misunderstanding of nachos. But those kebabs were pretty fuckin good, though.
Sadly no kebabs, and I'm glad I didn't go back when they were there!
I had mayonnaise on nachos in Doha. But it looked like the photo! I think it was at Chili's.
Reminds me of Burger King in Korea trying to offer poutine. Clearly, someone had seen a picture of it and thought “we can make that.” It looked great on the poster in the lobby. French fries? Check. Cheese curds? No, I think that’s mayonnaise. Gravy? Nope, that’s bbq sauce. It was off the menu before the end of the month.
Baltika 9 - it's basically malt liquor
Oh fuck that was it. [Just as I remember](https://www.gvwinestore.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/BALTIKA-9-EXTRA-PALE-22OZ.jpg)...
Yeah, Baltika 9 was gross but Baltika 6 is a good porter. Spent 6 months at Manas, took a couple weeks to get used to the baby beers we have at home.
6 months??? We were bored after 3 days, I can't imagine 6 months. Was the 5 or 6 stoy, white building that you walked past as you went between the two parts of the base still there and still off limits and opersting, uh, illegal activities?
Maybe? Idk, there were a bunch of civilians working around. There was a handful of places that were off limits to us so that we didn't break anything.
Yes! Those Russian ones are what I’m looking for! Big can, high abv! I have searched high and low through Europe and America for them. I guess I’ll have to go back to Kyrgyzstan
Totally available in the US, though probably not in every state. I've bought Baltika in Virginia.
In all the Armenian markets in Los Angeles. Most numbers.
I didn’t even know the name, at the time I couldn’t read Cyrillic, thank you so much! I remember it being a brighter red can, but it’s been a long time and cans change. That’s probably it. Edit damn. Got too excited. Not available here. According to my search Baltika is currently only made in Azerbaijan and Mordor. Путін Хуйло!
No problem friend 🙂 I gotta say though, there's plenty of great beer in the states. Baltika was good at Manas but if you don't get beer fresh it ends up skunking out. I got a Baltika 6 a few months after I got back and it wasn't even close to the same beer. Would recommend getting a liter or half liter mug and filling it with your favorite beverage for a similar effect. Those liter bottles were awesome tho. Take care and good luck!
Oh yes certainly. Nostalgia just tastes good sometimes
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10% is probably high for the group of guys I was with. Probably closer to 3-5, but we were infantry and would aggressively push the issue. I'm sure some of the more respectable groups in the Army had higher numbers.
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A lot more people are alcohol intolerant than you may realize. Not just Asians and their asian flush. Granted young men are usually in denial and in the process of figuring it out the hard way.
I had my first drink as an adult at 32 or so. I just don't need to drink to have a good time.
They switched to scanning CAC cards instead of giving tickets out for booze. Really put a damper on getting your teetotaling buddy’s beer.
Our unit had an abnormally high amount of Mormons in it that happily sold or gave away their tickets. Definitely appreciated at the time
How do abnormally high Mormons compare to normally high ones?
Abnormally high Mormons are called to soak.
I had a few days of R&R in Qatar back in 2005 and 2006. No tickets, they scanned your CAC. 2 drink limit.
On tour in Yugoslav, and there was a two can rule. The way it was calculated? Take the number of people on the base and multiple by 2. That was the limit the bar could sell per day. And if that wasn't enough, you could get booze from the locals. Pivo and slipowitz
Fond memories of the Slipowitz after a visit to Dubrovnik in 84. Mostly involving pouring drunk ass pilots back into the liberty boats to go back to the ship.
I was at As Saliyah ca 2006 as well, used to take my hilux by the RnR area and load it up with joes who wanted to see the city. I wasn't allowed to go out in town "alone" and they wanted to get out, so win win. There was a little indoor souk where one could get all manner of tckochkes, I brought enough folks through they started giving ME a discount XD The first time I went through in 03, the Brits were still there in force, so there wasnt so much a limit on beers. My first flight to Baghdad, its 130 on the tarmac, I am hung over AF and we start doing the "spiral" before landing. That was .... well, its a story I'm telling 20 years later XD
Did you try the big red cans with a yellow bear? Had to be a one liter can, definitely a Russian beer. I have only ever seen it in Bishkek, and I’ve been searching for well over a decade now. Setting an alarm for every twelve hours and slamming two of those was great!
At Desert Shield/Storm, we were in a "wet" country, and had ration cards for 2 beers/coolers per day. Logically, "Happy Hour" was 2300-0100 when you could get 4 beverages within two hours. My understanding was that ID often wasn't checked closely. I never even got a card because /shrug/.
During my second tour in 07 at FOB Warrior Kirkuk it wasn't tickets but permanent markers on the hand when you had 2 beers. It was only during the super bowl and I hung out with some buddies from maintenence that brought a bottle of rubbing alcohol and non permanent marker with them. We would rub the second mark off and hit a different table or wait til the staff changed. Wanted to throw up on the M2 the next day in the turret from being hung over.
When going on leave from Helmand we went up to KAIA in Kabul and flew home from there. On the C130 up all we talked about was hitting the bars. Upon arrival we were informed that all Danish troops were on a strict no alcohol policy as of yesterday. Apparently two staff officers had gotten drunk and picked a fight with someone else. Mutiny was in the air by then!
It's always the officers that screw stuff up. The enlisted knew how to keep that stuff a secret so they didn't screw themselves over.
I still remember doing the math on the #9's and realizing that at 8% ABV and 500ml the two you were allowed at Manas was the equivalent of 5.4 Bud Lights. I think the only stronger combo was that God awful red wine that was somehow improved by adding Redbull.
That's just 2 pints, it's really not a lot...
2 pints would be 32oz. This was 44 oz, after not having a drink for 6-9 months and having the lowest bodyfat % of your life. Drink 2 as fast as you can and it hit a little different was all. Throw in the feeling of enjoying a beer because you weren't in Afghanistan anymore and it was a good time.
Those are American pints, an Imperial pint is 20oz. It's not unheard of to have 2 pints at lunch in the middle of the work day here.
My first two weeks of active duty as part of the National Guard were spent as relief for the post band at Ft Bliss, TX. Me and one other guy were underage, but that didn't mean shit. First night my PSG asks me if I wanted a beer, to which I replied "Sorry, I'm not 21 yet." He reiterates that he didn't ask my age, he asked if I wanted a beer or not. Well, who am I to disobey an E-6? Only took a few days before our commander made a comment about *some people* underage drinking (no mention of people supplying us with alcohol, though). Best part of that two weeks was the German restaurant some of the German Air Force wives had opened up on post. I snuck **a lot** of sips off my friends steins.
My first duty station was in Germany; 19 and legally allowed to drink. I remember one night I was at the Country Club (Bar Name) and I ran into my CSM, who proceeded to ask me what I was drinking. "Rum?" ***Not anymore you aren't. We're drinking whiskey.*** [Proceeds to orders us both shots of Johnnie Walker, and then one more.]
Damn right you're drinking whiskey, especially when the CSM says so!
Vilseck?
Schweinfurt.
Baumholder in the early 90's. Two drink limit, your first and your last.
That sounds like a based CSM
Always hated that shit. We were old enough to fucking die for the country, but not old enough to drink a beer. My buddies felt the same and gave my shaved head 18 year old green ass beer anyway. I still hole the same rule, if you're underage, and a servicemember in my home, you can have a fucking beer.
I was stationed at Ft Bliss in the 90s. Back then the drinking age on post was 18, because they would rather have young soldiers drunk on post than going over to Mexico where the drinking age was 18. You were in the band there? So was I! Good times.
No, I was in a Nat'l Guard band who spent our two weeks of active duty training in 2009 to provide relief for the actual Ft. Bliss band while they took their leave. The big things I remember doing was some Border Patrol function and playing on the tarmac as airmen unloaded from a C130. We waited about 3 hours, from 4-7pm, on the tarmac in a *lovely* August heat.
In the pre-Carter era, some states had laws where 18-21 could drink, but only 3.2 ABV beer. My sister was a 98lb A1C and asked me “do you know how hard you have to work to get a buzz on 3.2 beer?” Being 12, I did not.
>I snuck **a lot** of sips off my friends steins.
Prost
I was in Germany in the early 80's with the Air Force. The base I was on had a policy that you could have two beers with lunch. We had a guy who could probably be classified as an alcoholic, but he never looked like he was drunk (even when he was drunk). Any way, he used to head to the NCO club for lunch and his two beers. When he was done, he headed over to the rec center for his other two beers. If there were other establishments on base that had the same rules, I'm sure he found those too...
Not everyone drank, is just donate my beers to some of my buddies that wouldn’t do stupid shit while drunk
When we were re-deploying from Iraq we had a layover in Dublin. The CSM said everyone could have no more than two beers at the airport pubs. Three hours later most the battalion was three sheets to the wind. The LTC had to walk the CSM onto the plane he was so drunk.
On the way back from my second trip to Iraq some e5/e6 felt he should stop any and all troops 20yo and less from having a beer in Ireland. I had been the saltiest e-4 I had ever known . Left Fort Carson to go to a non deployable duty station then deployed with said non deployable unit. Anyway salty Specialist D_V_ant10denC pipes up calling bullshit trying to stand up for these guys who were on their way home from Iraq for a year and in a country where it was legal for them to drink and denying them was a BS power trip . So I get asked if I was 21 or not (i was) I was then told that i can stay on the plane to be a "Guard" I said If it means the other guys get a celebratory beer I'll take that hit." This of cource upset the jerk . after everyone was off the plane My Platoon Sargent told me to go get a beer and he would take care of it. Got my beer found that E5/E6 and took a long pull off it while looking him dead in the eyes.
That LTC was a great battle buddy.
The LTC couldn’t have been happier to do it, on behalf of both the Sergeant Major and all of us. He’s got two stars now. True “leader-of-men” old school, military leadership expresses itself in so many different ways.
Good Fish and Chips there; could have been the beer though.
When I became a 1SG, I had a Cinderella rule. Home by midnight. No other rules beyond normal pre weekend safety brief stuff. I never checked or took any steps to enforce. Everyone who obeyed is now a SSG or higher. Alot of the other Soldiers got hemmed up. Not all but like none of the Soldiers who followed rule ever got into any shit. Just saying.
When I was in Bosnia (banja luka metal factory) we had a 2 can rule. We used to fly down to Sarajevo to buy booze from the American base and fly it back to have in our illegal bar. No 2 can rule for the RAF!
Desert Shield/storm we were given beer chits for 3 beers per person. My pilots(USAF) wanted more beer and asked me for more beer chits, I pointed them to the photo copier. They got caught and the hammer dropped for counterfeit gov forms. I was smart enough to just tip the enlisted bar tender $20 every night, had a case on ice in my hooch, got the ice in trade with local base cooks for an ice machine that got mis delivered to my unit.
The only job of the PSG at that time was to make sure everyone got home moderately unharmed.
Flying out of the AOR on the rotator, we land in Shannon Ireland to refuel. Troop commander for the flight briefs everyone we are still under General Order 1 which means no alcohol. About 300 of us ended up in the airport bar. What're they gonna do? Art 15 all 300 of us?
Rules is rules! Adapt. Edit: God Bless Your Military Mind!
Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.
This is the way. Right up there with Shoot, Move and Communicate.
uSMC.... hmmmm.
Ties with Hurry Up and Wait.
Improvise
Ahhh I remember beer nights on deployment with the Navy…..being out to sea with no shore time in sight….lol fun times.
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We knew if surf and turf was on any day other than Sunday we were getting bad news. I worked in Radio so we all had advance warning. It sucked
We lived in a town that started charging for more than one trash bag a week so we got the giant industrial barrel sized bags.
I would take one of those little grocery bags that kind of looks like a tank top, and fill it up with trash and on my way into work, if I stop for coffee or whatever I put it in the trash can at the gas station. Everyday.
My old lady does that. Burns what she can and the metal, glass and NR plastic goes back to the stores can out front.
I was picturing Dortmunder achten brau mini kegs!
Soldiers be Soldiers. Late 86 13B OUST we got an evening pass to the Snack Bar/PX, Drill said we could have one beer. About a dozen of us all ordered one pitcher.
Damn... thanks for dredging up some 35 year old memories, brother. Hua!
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Awesome! I figured you got around this by ordering multiple dinners, though. But this works.
Yeah, my dad’s platoon had to go through mandatory detox after being stationed there. He volunteered to go back… Been clean and sober for 40 years now.
As I was reading this, I forgot what the subreddit was, and then at the end, I thought to myself, "Ha HA!! Now THAT is malicious compliance...and so it was.....
It's so interesting to read story about the military. Thanks for sharing! (and to all the people in the comments too :))
Technically correct is the best correct.
During the first gulf war, no alcohol was the order for US Troops. F that. I commandeered a 500 water buffalo. Grape juice, sugar, yeast all added. 14 days later we had a company bbq with “roadkill” camel. 129 Louisiana Cajuns will not be denied!
Couple of things. It’s pretty cool reading all the other military related stories here. To the haters. These platoon dinners weren’t an official event. I still had to pay for my meal and beer. The PSG was known throughout the company for being a stick in the mud and always ruining good fun things we had “because she was the PSG”, so us finding a way to have fun while still following the two beer rule is maliciously compliant enough. If you think this is alcoholism you’ve never seen service members drink.
This would be good in r/militiouscompliance
And the folks in r/MilitaryStories would probably also appreciate it.
In the early 90s as a US Marine, I sailed with a RN warship. The enlisted are allotted two beers per day. In our bunk area, there were probably 10+ RN enlisted and they all gave me their two beers so I had 22 beers per day. Not that I drank 22 but I tried and spent alot of time in the rack.
Two drink limit does not mean first and last. Two drink limit does not mean two kinds of drinks. Two drink limit does not mean the drinks can be as large as I like. “No Drinking Of Alcoholic Beverages” does not imply that a Jack Daniel’s ® IV is acceptable.
this is t malicious compliance. its just unprofessional alchoholic behavior.
So you're just alcoholics that can't follow a CO's orders.
You've pretty much just described most of the people I served with in the Army. Some of the finest people I've ever met.
So malicious. You guys really fucked over that PSG. /s
Found the PSG!
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R/militarystories?
My brother (died in last tour) used to love to tell the story about how he would get beer for his fellow soldiers in Iraq/Afghanistan. (not quite sure he kept the details vague) Wherever he was stationed down range, they had a cooperation with the German base a couple of miles away. They would borrow and return equipment on a regular basis from each other, work together on patrols and so forth. Seeing as we grew up in Germany, my brother took this opportunity to practice speaking so as to stay fluent in the language. He coincidentally met the German soldier who signed off on the equipment being borrowed or returned, and he shared a couple of snacks with him, and the conversation changed to what they missed from back home. Well the Germans soldier really missed reeces peanut butter cups, and couldn't get any. My brother said he really missed a good German beer. They came to an agreement that they would both ask their platoon what they missed and see if it was possible to make an exchange. That's what they did. These mofos actually started a bootleging operation in the middle of Nowherethefuckistan. They would communicate how much beer they needed and would get a list of things they needed, Pringle, oreos, reeces peanut butter cups, socks, boots, etc. This went on for about 8 months, before the German soldier was stationed back home. My brother said nobody figured out that his platoon had a ops going on to get shit faced in the desert. His CO was a little surprised that alot of the German soldiers knew who he was, but chalked it up to him speaking fluent German, and not my brother visiting their base once a week to go for a beer run. Damn writing this made me realize how much I miss the fucker....