elected to pay the troops in $2 bills. They got the point.
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That AND a good old fashioned ‘dungaree liberty’ were effective.
(For those of you that don’t know, there was a time when one did not leave the base/military office in ‘work clothers (Khakis, dungarees) etc, civilian clothes OR Uniform of the Day were required to visit ‘civilian land’.
Today you see them in cammies etc in bars and shopping...
Camp Pendleton uniform regulations in 1968 stated ‘dungarees’ (blue jeans) were only allowed when participating in a rodeo or working on your car.
I was run in by the Shore Patrol for being in town wearing a shirt without a collar. For that ‘crime’, I was confined to base for two weekends.