[Vision2020] Troops angry over no-hookers plan

[Scott Dredge]

The article reads like something out of "The Onion". 
Ron Force...can you debunk this one?

-Scott


--- thansen at moscow.com wrote:
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> 
> 
> > We just sent an Army reserve unit to Iraq with no
> weapons and they are
> > worrying about this!
> > Fire Rumsfeld! 
> > 
> > Dick Schmidt
> > 
> > Troops angry over no-hookers plan
> > 
> > 
> > RHEIN-MAIN AIR BASE, Germany, Sept. 27 (UPI) --
> U.S. troops stationed in
> > Germany are upset over plans to change the Uniform
> Code of Military
> > Justice to make paying for sex a punishable
> offense.
> > 
> > In Germany, unlike other areas of the world where
> U.S. troops are
> > stationed, prostitution is legal and women who
> choose the world's oldest
> > profession are taxed like any other workers. They
> also are given regular
> > health checks.
> > 
> > Pfc. Marty Conyers of the 464th Replacement
> Detachment on Rhein-Main
> > told the European edition of Stars & Stripes
> changing the UCMJ would be
> > unfair to troops.
> > 
> > "It would be different if it were some third-world
> country that had no
> > jobs and no opportunity, and women were forced
> into it," Army Sgt. Adam
> > Z. Pastor said. "It's a little bit pushy to
> enforce that law here."
> > 
> > Military wife Dana Molnar advises defense
> officials to stop fretting
> > over troops's sex lives.
> > 
> > "It seems like we can spend our time worrying
> about more important
> > things," she told the newspaper.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Copyright 2004 by United Press International.
> > All rights reserved.
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