Who would have thought the juicy girl bar owners had their own lobby? More wives in Korea is the last thing they want or need:
Service members headed to South Korea on assignment in the next few years may not be taking their families.
A Senate subcommittee voted Tuesday to put on hold a so-called tour “normalization” program that would greatly expand the number of tours where dependents are authorized to accompany a service member at government expense.
Tour normalization has been a big morale issue, especially for people assigned to South Korea following a combat deployment that resulted in a long family separation.
Preparation for more accompanied tours requires an expansion of community facilities, which would be done as part of a larger rebasing program.
The Senate Armed Services Committee’s readiness panel voted Tuesday to delay construction projects in South Korea, Guam and elsewhere in Asia until the Defense Department provides a master basing plan, according to Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., the panel’s chairwoman.
The freeze was part of the 2012 defense authorization bill prepared by McCaskill.
Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., said there may be more restrictions added to the bill later, when the full Armed Services Committee takes up the 2012 defense policy bill. Webb has been working with Sen. Carl Levin, D-Ill, the committee’s chairman, and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the committee’s senior Republican, on an initiative that raises doubts about basing plans for South Korea, Guam and Japan, especially Okinawa.
Filipinas gotta earn a living too!
Skippy,
That would cut a lot into their business, even though they have lifted the curfew it would still take a dent out of business.
But no matter what, they will still have that silly Trafficing in Persons (TIP) training and rule and make all of those places off-limits. That rule has cut down on all of the “Happy Ending” places in Yokosuka. Now you see shore patrol standing outside of those spots waiting to grab any sailor that comes out and hits them with an Article 92.
And they wonder why the Family Service Center seems to have many cases of domestic issues. They take away a man’s right to “play the field” and young men who are not really ready to get married wind up marrying not so young women from here who have “been around” and find out that marital bliss is not all that it is said to be.
Marital bliss is an oxymoron!
ahhh, memories, though mine involve KOREAN ladies and most from KOREAN drinking establishments. of course. i NEVER indulged but I have heard stories….
I left Korea in 1975 and the first time I returned for a visit was 1987 and went to visit Itaewon…it was like time had not changed at all..same stupid drunk GI’s and getting into fights with taxi cab drivers etc etc..oi vey..don’t they ever learn?
No dependents would save a lot of KaChing for the DoD. Martial issues aside, the services have encouraged family life overseas as good for.. ? Beats me. Are young married family types better sailors than young singles or geo bachelors? Some how I doubt “better sailors” are the metric being used these days. I suspect the bring the family programs began in the day when retention was a virtue. These days it might be the juicy boys who rake in the bucks. Go figure. Leave it to the navy to suck the fun out of a juicy girl.
Whoops, I would take it as a great personal favor if you would remove my comment when you see it. Seems that I cc’d someone I shouldn’t have and would be very glad if this comment did not ever cross that particular desk. of course, it is probably to late, but I hear there are some great boxes outsde the home depot that will make a comfortable abode until I find a new job with a luddite type of organization.