Originally Posted by
High_Plains_Drifter
Hell there wasn't much you COULDN'T buy right in the barracks at Nellis... pot... acid... coke. They liked the blotter acid in Vegas, and coke.
Weekends in the barracks at Nellis looked a lot like ANIMAL HOUSE. MacDill was a whole different story. The barracks looked like a ghost town on the weekends. Could have been because it was a training base. They actually encouraged people to party on base at Nellis though. It was easy to get in trouble in Vegas.
The BEQ in 29 Palms CA, the middle of the Hi Desert and no housing in sight ... people with cars got the hell out on the weekends -- was Party Central. We just had weed and booze though. Jarheads THEN weren't really into anything else and you had to drive forever to get anything. Palm Springs was 50 miles. LA 180. When I say desert, I mean desert.
And most everybody drank or smoked weed then. Different times. We lost a lot of people when they came out with the piss test because at first it was discretionary on the part of the CO what he wanted to do and it wasn't instant death like now. Many said nope, put me out. I'm not quitting smoking pot.
Might have been different for me but the desert did a number on my sinuses. One hit of smoke would give a psycho headache from Hell. I'm sure God was behind that Anyway, I HAD to quit several months before they unveiled their wonderful piss test so I was clean. Good thing they didn't test for alcohol by volume
Last edited by Gunny; 05-24-2018 at 09:39 PM.
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