Dang. Glad I didn't have to hump that toy-set in my pack.
Most places I was stationed, CONUS and off-CONUS (Okinawa, mainland Japan,) or "floated" to (MEU deployments - Thailand, Philipines, Korea, Australia), the only real difference between the E-Club and drinking out of town was in how quickly the MPs (or cops) showed up once the brawl started.
Out in town was better because the cops weren't right there waiting at every club so you often had time to work on your E&E (escape and evasion) skills while making your way to the rally point (the next club) post-brawl.
My favorite First Shirt retired about 6 months before I Separated, we had a little shindig at the Barracks, which were located in the same quad with Headquarters. His son was a Marine at Pendleton and came out to Tucson for his retirement party, was drinking beer with us for a while then we lost him. The Shirt asked us a little later where he was and everyone said he was last seen lurking around the WAF barracks down the street crawling thru the bushes with a K-Bar in his teeth.
We were 60 miles from Mexico, that's where we went to party, crawl back to base any which way you needed to just get there. We avoided the bars in Tucson because back then everyone hated on Service members, in town you were gonna hafta fight. In Mexico you could drink cheap... and fight off the working girls.
Dang. Glad I didn't have to hump that toy-set in my pack.
Most places I was stationed, CONUS and off-CONUS (Okinawa, mainland Japan,) or "floated" to (MEU deployments - Thailand, Philipines, Korea, Australia), the only real difference between the E-Club and drinking out of town was in how quickly the MPs (or cops) showed up once the brawl started.
Out in town was better because the cops weren't right there waiting at every club so you often had time to work on your E&E (escape and evasion) skills while making your way to the rally point (the next club) post-brawl.
My favorite First Shirt retired about 6 months before I Separated, we had a little shindig at the Barracks, which were located in the same quad with Headquarters. His son was a Marine at Pendleton and came out to Tucson for his retirement party, was drinking beer with us for a while then we lost him. The Shirt asked us a little later where he was and everyone said he was last seen lurking around the WAF barracks down the street crawling thru the bushes with a K-Bar in his teeth.
We were 60 miles from Mexico, that's where we went to party, crawl back to base any which way you needed to just get there. We avoided the bars in Tucson because back then everyone hated on Service members, in town you were gonna hafta fight. In Mexico you could drink cheap... and fight off the working girls.