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Strip Clubs And The Military

sinclair

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With Memorial Day tomorrow, I thought I'd share a few stories and thoughts relating to the military and strip clubs.

When I was finishing high school around 17 or 18, I would get calls from the US Army and US Air Force recruiters. Since I had no idea what I wanted to do with myself after high school, I went into the recruitment office for the Army once and the Air Force once. They try to get you to sign papers to join up once you finish high school. I remember these guys saying before we had to report to boot camp, they'd take us out to strip clubs parties, only if we signed the paper. When you are that young, naked women are a big motivator. I'm sure they got plenty of kids to sign up for the military with the lure of trips to the nudie club. I did join ROTC in college, but got in a fight with the lieutenant running thing and quit. I was always too much of a renegade to be taking orders from other people.

One of the best lap dances I've gotten at Brad's Brass Flamingo during my Indy residency was from a girl that had just gotten out of the Navy. She grinded me so intense that I think she orgasmed. Sure enough, she was heavily tattooed like most squids. I do not think she danced very long. That would have been the only time I got a lap dance from a veteran.

Have you ever noticed there are almost always strip clubs close to military bases? Take the five largest bases in the US in terms of population: There are 10 by Fort Bragg, 4 in the same town as Fort Hood, 2 right by Fort Campbell, 3 near Fort Benning, and 2 just outside of Fort Lewis-McChord. There have been times I been at strip clubs where almost all of the patrons are active duty military.

I was reading a book about the Battle of Dien Bien Phu the other day. One thing I found interesting was that the French Army would set up brothels on their military posts. At Dien Bien Phu, there were two "bordels mobiles de campagne", or mobile field brothels. All of the prostitutes were Vietnamese or Algerian. When the siege became dire at Dien Bien Phu, the hookers were forced to become makeshift field nurses.