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Any of these ring a bell? D Street, Kileen, Texas. Hotel Street, Hawaii. Leesville, Louisiana. Brag Blvd...Fayetteville, NC. And many more. Streets that the local Post, Fort, or Garrison warned all the young troops about. If you were on CQ...and the MP's showed up...it was probably because somebody from your Company did something , or something was done to them...on one of those Streets.
If you were Staff Duty, Section Sergeant, or Platoon Sergeant, you might have had to ride down to those streets in a jeep, along with the MP's. Or to the Police Station that was nearest.
Some were funny. Some were serious. Almost all cost somebody an Article 15...at the least. And some, well, the Civilian Authorities had to handle it first.
My first taste of this was when I did my very first CQ in Hawaii. The SGT who was the CQ ( I was the runner) got a call from the Staff Duty.
"Get the Staff Duty Driver to take you down to Hotel Street and pick up PFC Duffy." (not his real name.)
An Hour later he comes back. With PFC Duffy. Duffy is drunk and wearing only boxer short underwear. Turns out, he was in a card game in a backroom somewhere. Lost it all. His watch. His ring. His clothes. But the guys who fleeced him were nice and called the Base to pick him up.
It didn't take long. By Monday night he was a PVT...E2. And he lost enough pay that he couldn't gamble anymore.
Another time, another town, and one of my Platoon mates was sure a Stripper was in love with him. He caught her with another guy, in his car. Which he had "loaned" her while we were out in the Field for Six weeks. She stabbed him when he tried to beat up the other guy. That went beyond an Article 15.
Another guy went AWOL. Turns out, he wasn't really AWOL...he just got drugged on D Street, and didn't wake up for more than a day. Article 15, and he doesn't remember anything.
And then there were the lice. Yep. Guy hooks up...gets Lice...and well, you know the procedure there. And folks got STD's like they were S&H Green Stamps. Except the rewards weren't the same.
Sometimes those streets were so bad, that the MP's called to settle something came back out of the "Club" only to find their jeep...gone.
And one of my favorite lines of all time, came from a Samoan Guy who got into trouble regularly on Hotel Street.
Top told him:
"You have to stop Partying. No drinking. No drugs. No sex with hookers. And no fighting!"
To which the Samoan said:
"Then why live?"
That became a legendary response in our Unit.
I guess every town has a "D" Street, or Hotel Street....and Soldiers will still go there, like moths to a flame. Warnings be darned.
Any of these ring a bell? D Street, Kileen, Texas. Hotel Street, Hawaii. Leesville, Louisiana. Brag Blvd...Fayetteville, NC. And many more. Streets that the local Post, Fort, or Garrison warned all the young troops about. If you were on CQ...and the MP's showed up...it was probably because somebody from your Company did something , or something was done to them...on one of those Streets.
If you were Staff Duty, Section Sergeant, or Platoon Sergeant, you might have had to ride down to those streets in a jeep, along with the MP's. Or to the Police Station that was nearest.
Some were funny. Some were serious. Almost all cost somebody an Article 15...at the least. And some, well, the Civilian Authorities had to handle it first.
My first taste of this was when I did my very first CQ in Hawaii. The SGT who was the CQ ( I was the runner) got a call from the Staff Duty.
"Get the Staff Duty Driver to take you down to Hotel Street and pick up PFC Duffy." (not his real name.)
An Hour later he comes back. With PFC Duffy. Duffy is drunk and wearing only boxer short underwear. Turns out, he was in a card game in a backroom somewhere. Lost it all. His watch. His ring. His clothes. But the guys who fleeced him were nice and called the Base to pick him up.
It didn't take long. By Monday night he was a PVT...E2. And he lost enough pay that he couldn't gamble anymore.
Another time, another town, and one of my Platoon mates was sure a Stripper was in love with him. He caught her with another guy, in his car. Which he had "loaned" her while we were out in the Field for Six weeks. She stabbed him when he tried to beat up the other guy. That went beyond an Article 15.
Another guy went AWOL. Turns out, he wasn't really AWOL...he just got drugged on D Street, and didn't wake up for more than a day. Article 15, and he doesn't remember anything.
And then there were the lice. Yep. Guy hooks up...gets Lice...and well, you know the procedure there. And folks got STD's like they were S&H Green Stamps. Except the rewards weren't the same.
Sometimes those streets were so bad, that the MP's called to settle something came back out of the "Club" only to find their jeep...gone.
And one of my favorite lines of all time, came from a Samoan Guy who got into trouble regularly on Hotel Street.
Top told him:
"You have to stop Partying. No drinking. No drugs. No sex with hookers. And no fighting!"
To which the Samoan said:
"Then why live?"
That became a legendary response in our Unit.
I guess every town has a "D" Street, or Hotel Street....and Soldiers will still go there, like moths to a flame. Warnings be darned.
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CW3 Richard "Lee" Doty
I always got a kick out of "off-limits" facilities in Germany. There were legitimately some that were placed off-limits by the US forces, but a number of them just posted a sign that they were off-limits just to keep drunk GIs out. A jazz club that I particularly liked in Sachsenhausen was so labeled, but they absolutely had no problem if you came in, ordered, and enjoyed the music. I don't think I ever saw another American there, but they had excellent beer (which is redundant in Germany), and great music. Aaaand it was on the street car line that took me all the way back across town to my apartment!
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Bells have been rung,Killeen Texas,a welcome respite from the NCO academy Ft.Hood where I was “volunteered” to attend by the range OIC,Leesville Louisiana the said place where I was “Volunteered “only visited at the end of the month when funds were low,preferred Villa Platte very friendly place far away from those desperate trainees,finally the best, any street in Hong Kong,like landing on a freakin far off planet ,but beware as Kipling wrote “Here lies a fool who tries to hustle the East “Welcome Home Brothers.
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