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"Army troops in Vietnam were allowed to have Carling Black Label in steel cans - always rusted."
Yep I remember the rusty steel cans!!! I don't remember the Carling but I do recall Schlitz and Budweiser...After a 30 day op the firebase always had a couple of barrels iced down for us...(free)...The only problem was deciding what you wanted first... cold beer then a cold shower or a warm shower and then a warm beer...
Another thing I recall was that we could buy a case of beer for $2.25 but a case of Coke was $2.50. That was from the tiny BX at Ban Me Thuot, where finding any kind of bar soap, toothpaste, or deodorant was iffy but there was always beer.
Rocky- there was many a bullet hole in a helicopter that was first patched with hundred mile an hour tape- and "permanently repaired" with a section cut out from one of those cans of Carling Black Label, pop riveted over the hole, and sprayed OD Green.
Speaking of those steel beer cans. When I was kid walking home from school in the afternoon you could find those cans in ditches all along the road. You take a couple of them and stomp your feet in the middle of them and they would wrap around the bottom of your shoe and clamp onto the edges of the sole. Then you you could go scuffing along walking on the cans making a racket. Well it was a boring walk so we had to do something to entertain ourselves.
Speaking of those steel beer cans. When I was kid walking home from school in the afternoon you could find those cans in ditches all along the road. You take a couple of them and stomp your feet in the middle of them and they would wrap around the bottom of your shoe and clamp onto the edges of the sole. Then you you could go scuffing along walking on the cans making a racket. Well it was a boring walk so we had to do something to entertain ourselves.
It's being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull the trigger. I won't. ~ J.B. Books
When I was stationed In Panama in the Army..........we had a vending machine for beer in the barracks. I thought that was kind of cool.....dispensed Atlas, Panama, and Soberana.
Speaking of service connect beer drinking, when I was at Ft. Monroe, VA, the NCO club had $0.15 16 oz beer every night. I forget what brand. I think it did something to my brain.
Jeff, in our all-ranks shack at Ban Me Thuot, all drinks were 35 cents. And they did not pour "light". One could get seriously wasted on two bucks. The bar girls could understand "sebben sebben" and "cee cee sebben" as well as "scotrox" so no matter what you ordered, that's what you'd get! And they served it saying "ba moui nam" which is 35 in Vietnamese.
Its very good. I will be buying it again. I tried milk stout and fell in love with it when I went to Savannah first part of March. Not easily found out here in the sticks.
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And I still have one, church key that is.
Tonight's beer:
Lately I have been enjoying Michelob ULTRA Amber.
Its very good. I will be buying it again. I tried milk stout and fell in love with it when I went to Savannah first part of March. Not easily found out here in the sticks.