norcal6er Posted July 16, 2009 Report Share Posted July 16, 2009 http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12843604?source=rsswhat next? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grubstake Posted July 16, 2009 Report Share Posted July 16, 2009 One way to end the war! They will be shooting each other within a week of that. Grubstake How dumb can you be? Smoking is one of the few pleasures a military man has to calm him down in war. That just sucks. Grubstake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandana Don Posted July 16, 2009 Report Share Posted July 16, 2009 Any soldier, sailor, marine or airman asked to go to war and risk being killed or seriously wounder surely has the right to have a smoke. After puffing for 55 years I no longer smoke but that's my choice!Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grubstake Posted July 16, 2009 Report Share Posted July 16, 2009 Yeh, DON your right. Agent orange killed more military men than smoking, but it took twenty years for the gov. to own up to it. In fact its still being used, only in the cotton fields in the good old USA. Grubstake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrogMick Posted July 17, 2009 Report Share Posted July 17, 2009 Hey you old Vets. Remember when we were in (me in 1960s) you could buy 2 packs of regular Camel, Lucky Strike and Chesterfield at the canteen for 25 cents. Plus they came free in your ration packages in those little packs of 5, I think. Back when I smoked a old battle axe nurse at the VA was ragging me about it. She thought they should throw all Vets that smoked out of the VA. I told here they couldn't afford all the law suits. She got indignant and said, what law suits? I said, all the Vets that smoke and got free smokes and 2 packs for a quarter, the military aided and abetted our smoking. Man did she get mad, but she shut up. A few years later after she had retired I heard she died of cirrhosis of the liver. We all got our Jones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grubstake Posted July 17, 2009 Report Share Posted July 17, 2009 Yep, Frogmick, I remember that, we got cartons of Maroburo for 110. in the PX in Nam, and some of those C rations were dated 1944, we didn't have MRE"'S I always liked the round choclate that was in the can, along with crackers and cheese. Toilet papper, a book of matches, and packs of salt and pepper. When we were out in the field in Nam, we got all our smokes for free, I had a buddy that smoked a pipe, I'd trade him my pipe tobaco for his cigs. Grubstake I forgot to add, in the field, we got issued 4 cartons a month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homefire Posted July 17, 2009 Report Share Posted July 17, 2009 I remember getting a 5 pack in the Rats.Then it was cut down to a 4 pack.Then they disappear.We had to pay $2.oo a carton rationed to 6 a month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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