Texas Army base (Fort Bliss) raises its drinking age to 21

Texas Army base raises its drinking age to 21

http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/nationworld/story/253466.html#

By ALICIA A. CALDWELLAssociated Press Writer
May 29, 2008 - 1:26 p.m.

This military base in the far West Texas desert stood as the last Army post in America where if you were old enough to fight and die for your country, you were old enough to drink a beer.

But the party is over at Fort Bliss.

Citing too many drunken-driving crashes and arrests and too many fights, the new commanding general has raised the drinking age on base from 18 to 21, bringing 17,000-soldier Fort Bliss into line with what has been the law in the rest of Texas since 1986.

And not only that, but all Fort Bliss soldiers are barred from slipping across the Mexican border to Ciudad Juarez, the city of famously loose morals where young Americans have been getting drunk - and getting into trouble - for generations. From now on, no passes to Juarez will be issued.

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The new policy took effect May 22.

:rofl:

(3 minutes later after reading about the sexual homicides and number of killings there)

:scared:

PB

flying there to take advantage of the proximity to Juarez.

but I also believe there should be a drink limit if you're below 21. Rather than mass punishment, it might have been better to give these kids say a wristband and have the bartender holepunch each drink served up to whatever limit you set.

Who the fuck IS this CG anyway?



General Howard Bromberg, who looks like he's still waiting for his pubes to grow in, joined the army to shoot airplanes down. His bio is full of assignments to theater-level missile commands--HAWK and Patriot systems. I think the only time this guy ever saw a Vulcan or a Chaparral was in Officer Basic Course.