Strip Clubs And The Military

May 27, 2018, 3:56 PM

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.

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sinclair7 years ago

*strip clubs and parties

san_jose_guy7 years ago

^^^^ Most interesting.

When the US was there, it was a little city referred to as Disneyland East, close to Westmoreland's Headquarters by the Saigon Airport.

SJG

doctorevil7 years ago

Sinclair: Sounds like you were reading Hell in a Very Small Place by Bernard B. Fall. An excellent book. Another Without Joy is another excellent book on the French experience in Vietnam by Fall. He was later killed in Vietnam while covering U.S. operations.

doctorevil7 years ago

Strip clubs are not nearly as prevalent outside bases as they once were. In the "old days" there were probably a dozen on Victory Drive outside Fort Benning. The officers club on Fort Benning even had a small bar in a basement area of the club called the Foxhole. On Fridays the club would bring in "feature entertainers" from some of the clubs on Victory Drive. Those days are long gone.

doctorevil7 years ago

^The other book is "Street Without Joy," not "Another Without Joy."

Jascoi7 years ago

oh man. the missed opportunities i had while i was in the navy. butt then i was an introvert. big time. i didn’t come out of that shell until MUCH later.

flagooner7 years ago

Homo

Muddy7 years ago

Actually currently stationed at Fort Bliss. El Paso definitely one of the underrated strip club cities people don’t really talk about. Makes being in the Army fun sometimes haha.

shadowcat7 years ago

I enlisted in the USAF during the Cuban Missile crisis. Turned out that my recruiter was in one of my night classes at college. There weren't any strip clubs back then.

I remember know a stripper at the Columbia Platinum Plus that started stripping while she was in the army stationed at FT. Lewis WA. She wound up marrying a sergeant and I think is still married to him. He was retired from the army and she kept the money coming in by stripping.

mark947 years ago

Brothels located outside military bases goes back to the time of the Roman Empire. Probably much further back than that. Just ask Civil War General Hooker.

san_jose_guy7 years ago

Do they even use the term Hooker in other countries?

In the Roman Empire brothels were a state run enterprise. The religious aspect had become just a scam. But earlier they really did have a religious purpose. I feel that we need to restore this.

SJG

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