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Bill Slocum Everywhere Ah, Those Military Minds
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- Navy
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- Slocum, W.
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NEW YORK MIRROR!
New York, New York
October 8, 1962
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Ah, Those 'Military Minds !
When one considers the military mind, one wonders
how-we ever won a war. The only explanation possible is that
our military minds were fighting their military minds and
a military mind is a universal nothing.
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As the latest example of said mind allegedly function-
ing, I give you the Air Force's new order banning the gift
of cigarets to itspersonnel in hospitals.
We can- assume this ord~r covers enlisted personnel,
Such orders usuall do
onl
y y et ~
.
TIiE AIB FORC$ in explain-
ing the order, points to ever-in-
creasin$ evidence that there is'
a link tletween cancer and cig-
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ty and the pain that are always refused tiaooept tfic people's
so much a part of any hospitali verdict for her hm~band's Navy. '
zation. Particularly, I would The idea of giving a saiios a
think, of military hospitaliza- few drinks to relieve the fan-
tion. tastic boredom of weeks oTt"'end
Naturally, some poor bloke at sea might seem dangerofrs -at;
with an iilness that would be fi_rst.;_But th@; idea`isn' t9_ run
cornpllcated by smoking should'.a~ saloon in-ntid-Pac}fic. Juskiq ;
not be permitted cigarets. I
rather Imagine that rule has
been In effect in military hos-
pitals for many years now:
drink or two at specified tiim
Issued from Navy stores unde
strict supervision.
THEYNE BEEN doing 'ust
Apparently men with broken ? that in the British Navy since
.1egs and busted appendixes are time immemorial. And the Brit-
permitted to smoke if they can ish have atways put a great
buy their own" coffin nails. It's Navy on the oceans of the lfiorld.
the gifts the Air Fotce.objects Quite sober, too. .
to. "ITO*.D-YOTJS4" itPms in
IF TSE AIR FORCE is going I
to 'start taking a dim vi~wof
gifts, there is a lot of COhgres-
sional testimony e(rouxad ~ that
suggests it might start gettir)g
tough with its own hierarc behy
fore making things'even a little
bit tougher for the poor guy who
wound up in a hospital and.
wants a 'smoke.
The Navy has a peculiar rule,
too. Nobody Is permitted a drink
aboard a' United States Navy
ship. This law still stsnds in the
books because the wife' of. a See-
retary of Navy was a, prohkM-
tionist znd whsAOe pra]ilbition
law wax'repealed Mrs. Secretary
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