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Just saw some parts form the Band of Brothers TV series... One thing got me is a drinking party organized on a base...
Is is still allowed to US solders to drink while on base?
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Have you seen Stripes? Better to keep them on base.
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Alcoholic beverages are considered contraband, and always have been. In war time, though, officers tend to look the other way unless things get out of hand. It is also (and always has been) a court martial offense to be drunk on duty. In extreme circumstances, it can be considered treason.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Alcoholic beverages are considered contraband, and always have been. In war time, though, officers tend to look the other way unless things get out of hand. It is also (and always has been) a court martial offense to be drunk on duty. In extreme circumstances, it can be considered treason.
Huh. 
I was in the Infantry for 4.5 years and we were allowed to have alcohol in the barracks, if over 21 - never contraband. The onpost PX sells Everclear for phucks sake. We were not allowed to be drunk on duty, but it was never, ever enforced with court martial. I used to get drunk with our LT all the time.
Treason??? WTF, are you smoking? 
modified 5-Dec-16 5:27am.
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Possibly a difference between being stationed at home or on the front lines.
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I do know that US Navy ships are dry (no booze!) while Her Majesty are wet (well we did own most of the World once), which is why US Marines prefer UK Navy ships...
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It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of the country as a consequence. Everybody is using coffee; this must be prevented. His Majesty was brought up on beer, and so were both his ancestors and officers. Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.
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He may very well have meant malt beer which has only very little acohol.
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CDP1802 wrote: malt beer
That may very well be, but the "standard" interpretation is funnier.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Ok, when you are going to be the king, there are not many people around who can forbid anything.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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>> "nourished on beer" lol. Great line. 
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Thankfully, I don't have to worry about it much anymore, but when sons were deployed, no <permitted> drinking in a combat zone (basically anything having sand...).
Of course, soldiers will be soldiers. Drinking on duty tends to get people killed, so it's frowned on.
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Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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This one seems ok... But in general I just don't get the Garfield comics! 
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Super Lloyd wrote: But in general I just don't get the Garfield comics!
Then you probably are a dog. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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It's true. I am not a cat person. More of a dog person indeed! 
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Jeez, maybe they should have made it an ad for not eating a cholesterol laden 1/2 lb burger with fries. That's got to be 2000 Calories sitting on that table. I guess vegan's probably aren't much of drinkers either. 
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I guess vegan's probably aren't much of drinkers either.
Why not? With the exception of mead, aren't alcoholic drinks made out of plants?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
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Well ... yeast isn't a plant, it's a fungus - which is the same domain (Eukaryota), but a different Kingdom (Fungi rather than Plantae) - and that's what makes beer into beer, and wine into wine. Without it, beer is a thin soup, and wine is just grape juice.
And Beer can be "fined" (the suspended yeast removed) with Isinglass, which is a substance obtained from the dried swim bladders of fish. (Most British beers are fined with Isinglass).
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OriginalGriff wrote: (Most British beers are fined with Isinglass).
I've had hardly any - and now it will surely stay that way.
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Well, notice how she neither eats the food or drink the Budweiser in the video...
They probably couldn't pay her enough to do either.
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Well, on a vegan diet there sure as hell isn't anything to soak up the beer... 
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She shouldn't be eating that garbage either.
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