[mongo141]

“Of course HASP was there to ‘protect’ us.”
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Ah Yes the Hawaiian Armed Services Police. I was on an old Fletcher class tin can there in the early 60,s, if they saw you standing waiting for a ride back to base and your hat wasn't squared watch out. They would tell you to square it and at the same time knock you flat with a nightstick, You didn't Even want to go down to the station where the would beat you half to death for “resisting”.

[xrmusn]

Even want to go down to the station where the would beat you half to death for “resisting”.
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On the way ‘over’, the first stop in Pearl taught us to always BUDDY UP in a ‘dangerous’ Overseas Port. My first time through was when a Territory and we quickly learned that you always went ashore with a ‘witness’.
Much like Lesson ONE that was picked up in Tijuana.
Those ‘HASP Plicks’ were more dangerous than the HUKs in the Philippines and any of the waterfront bars in Keelung etc...