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FT HOOD GIs
BOYCOTT RIP-OFF
ALLEY JEWELERS
ItTs a street that goes by many names. You'll find
it in every military town. ItTs usually a couple of
blocks long.
Garish, hastily constructed shops selling flashy
clothes, jewelry, and skin flicks. ThereTs a pool hall,
some finance companies and auto rent places, a
drug store or two featuring Archie comics and
Playboy, several pawnshops, an arcade of pin-ball
machines and rifle ranges.
Gls call it Rip-Off Alley. In Killeen, Texas, the
town closest to the Army huge military installation
of Fort Hood, itTs Avenue D. And right smack in
the middie of Ave. D is Tyrrell Jewellers Inc., a
world-wide jewelry army base spread ~round the
world (including Saigon)
"an ex-G/ stationed at Fort Hood
TyrrellTs specialty is getting Gis to buy expensive
pieces of jewelry for the girl back home, whether
it's mom or a girl friend. They do a fast trade in
engagement rings and a thing called the Golden
Clover Pin"an expensive diamond pin sold as a gift
to mother.
TyrrellTs gives each new salesman a 20 page
manual that includes detailed sales pitches, written
out word for word that have to be memorized. Here
is part of one pitch:
Bill, may | ask you a question before you leave?
What would you do to any man who insulted your
mother? Before you start sounding off, remember:
indifference and neglect can hurt a woman worse
than cruel words.
Now tell me how long has it been since you did
something nice, | mean really nice for your mother?
Not on her birthday, or MotherTs Day, or Christmas
or some other big holiday, but just out of the clear
blue sky, when did you do something extra nice to
say, ~Mom, | love you.T
(Pause a moment to give your prospect a chance
to digest this question, but not long enough for
him to raise any defenses. )
If you're like most fellows, Bill, you're always
intending to probably do something, but you never
quite get around to it. Bill, we have something here
that in one moment will express to your mother all
the love that is in your heart. (Keep box top closed,
but tap it significantly with one finger. Speak
Slowly and reverently.)
If this hasnTt made you sick, check out the next
one:
The salesman tells a prospect that he has just
talked to another young man who was buying a
spray of orchids for his motherTs coffin. The sales-
man cautions him: ~DonTt wait until your mom is in
her coffin. Honor the living, not the dead. With this
pin your mother will always have you with her.T
TyrrellTs honors the dead by keeping an ~honor rollT
of Gls killed in Vietnam before they had paid off
their bills to Tyrrells.
This spring, brothers stationed at Ft. Hood, Kil-
leen, Texas, decided to blow the whistle on Tyrrell.
At the Armed Forces Day demonstration May 15,
the Killeen Spring Offensive Committee moved
for a Gl-civilian boycott of TyrrellTs. They made
four demands:
"stop sidewalk soliciting and other high pressure
sales techniques.
"stop exploiting GI homesickness
"end Army intervention and cooperation in pay-
ments; the Army deducts the money Gis owe
TyrrellTs ffom their paychecks.
"remove the honor roll
They began the boycott with leafletting in front
of the store a few days before the monthly payday
weekend at the end of May. TyrrellTs owners,
pissed off since they had only one sale that week-
end, swore out arrest warrants against two women
who work at the GI coffeehouse there called the
Oleo Strut. Then, that night, Gls and friends set up
a picket line in front of the jewelry store.. The
picketline, watched closely by Killeen pigs, contin-
ued the entire weekend and not one sale was made.
By May 31, KilleenTs business cats were uptight.
Rumors began going around that the boycott was
going to grow, expand and shut down the whole
town. When the picket line started again the next
day, the pigs moved in and without warning ar-
rested everyone on the line"8 Gls and 2 friends.
Four of the Gls were Nam vets. All were held over-
night and were charged the following morning with
parading without a permit and participating in an
illegal secondary boycott. Bail was set at $2200, but
later knocked down to $600. Within a day, all were
out of the can.
During one -conversation with the mayor, city
manager and city council, the Oleo Strut people
found out that the ten were busted after Mayor
Lindley called the major of Wrightstown, New Jer-
sey, near Ft. Dix, where a similar boycott happened
some time ago. The Wrightstown mayor said they
had ~closed the town down...T Mayor Lindley
wanted to make sure that Killeen stayed open. The
mayor reminded the coffeehouse staff of ~what
happened in WrightstownT, where a similar coffee-
house was shot into and later bombed.
Local business owners are trying to fight the boy-
cott. One guy tried to file a complaint for violation
of a local noise ordinance. A local Baptist minister
and gun shop owner even started a ~Fed Up With
the Oleo StrutT campaign.
But outside support has also surfaced. The Texas
AFL-CIO has offered legal help, since the secondary
boycott law has been used against Texas unions.
On June 30, a nationwide boycott of TyrrellTs
began. In Killeen, over 100 people marched, daring
local police to bust them again. They didnTt. The
next day, fewer pickets kept the store closed. They
are now open only a few hours a day, and business
is terrible. San Francisco and Seaside, California,
and Fort Bragg, North Carolina stores have also
been picketed with great results. There'll be more
on this story as the boycott builds.
NYG BREAKDOWN
(New York, June 7) - On the morning of June 7,
this is what New York City looked like: all but two
of the 29 drawbridges connecting the five borroughs
were locked open. Traffic was backed up on all
major routes for miles. And heavy trucks blocked
strategic access routes.
These actions were organized by hundreds of
bridge tenders and other city workers who've been
fighting for months for the same kinds of salaries
and pension benefits that cops and firemen are
already getting. It just so happens that most of the
cops and firemen are white. And at least 35% of the
bridge tenders and sanitation workers are black and
Puerto Rican. The New York state legislature ap-
proved a fair contract for cops and firemen, and then
refused to do the same for District 37 of the Ameri-
can Federation of State, County and Municipal Em-
ployees (AFSCME).
~Governor Rockefeller needs to be reminded that
we are made of sterner stuff than the people of
Czechoslovakia and Austria who caved in so easily
to Hitler three decades ago,T said one union militant.
One of Rockefellers politicians in Albany, the
state capital, hit the nail on the head: ~This has got
to stop. Government cannot exist in a state of
anarchy.T
Lindsay called the strike ~immoral, illegal, out-
rageous and offensive to the public interest.T But in
fact, the strike was selectively aimed at disrupting
suburban commuters who for years have used city
services without ever having to pay for them since
they live outside its tax borders. The people who
live in New York, in the inner city, were not affected
since subways ran on schedule. Also, one of the two
bridges left open was the one linking Welfare Island
(a large hospital site) to Manhattan proper.
~Unlike Rockefeller,T said one of the bridgeten-
ders, ~we do not wage war on the sick and infirm.T
~This is auerrilla warfare aaaineat the rich Renublican
commuters, said a Teamster spokesman. ~We'll
have to study Mao...use hit and run tactics. ItTs not
just the pension. New York is an occupied city and
we have to fight back...WeTre with the poor, the
blacks, and Puerto Ricans.T
The beauty of these actions is that these city
workers knew that without them, the city would
stop working. Without the repair and maintenance
workers of the Dept of Water Resources, who would
make the water flow? Without the incinerator op-
erators, who would burn the garbage?
Like the city workers who shut down New York,
your power comes from the beastTs dependence on
you. Without flight maintenance crews, planes donTt
fly. Without clerks to move paper, orders donTt get
cut and materiel won't get shipped. This is it. With-
out the beast we can do everything. Without us, the
beast can do nothing. O
ASSAULT ON COMMANDING OFFICER OKAY!
Washington (June) - The Court of Military Appeals
has dismissed charges against a Marine Corps pvt
who KOTd his CO. The officer accused Pvt Daniel
Struckman of being a coward with ~a streak of yel-
low down his backT and asked him ~what he would
like.T Dan said heTd ~like to see the Marine Corps flat
on its back with its heels in the air.T The officer got
very excited, and challenged Dan to try it with him.
Dan jumped at the invitation, and punched him out.
The court ruled that the officer, by his words and
actions, abandoned his position and rank. And so
when Dan punched out his CO, he just knocked out
someone who was asking for it. If you try the same
thing, the case to refer to is: US v. Struckman, 20
USCMA 493, 43 CMR 333 (April 9, 1971) (NOMLAC)
MUHAMMED ALI BEATS DRAFT CONVICTION
Chicago (June) - Ali had to take it to the Supreme
Court, but he did it and beat a 1967 conviction for
draft evasion that almost put him away for five
years. When asked about the decision he said, ~I'd
rather be in jail than sell out the poor black people
and be a rich Negro. I'll be happy to be in jail.
Everybody can see me. ITm a Muslim. ITm black. I'm
helping the world wake up. If it means | have to
suffer to help open up eyes, that means more to me
than gold.T About his boxing, he said, ~ITm thinking
about all those people in every ghetto in every city
in the USA. ITm out to whup all the hypocrites in
the power structure. ITm fighting here for my free-
dom and carrying the hope of my 30 million black
people here, and thatTs what my mission is.T (LNS)
CHU LAI ANTIWAR RALLY ON JULY 4
Vietnam (July) - On Independence Day, guys at
Chu Lai held an antiwar rally on the beach, daring
the CG to bust them. After getting ahold of a leaflet
announcing the rally, the CG warned people that
the rally was illegal, and that participants would be
arrested. Not only did guys go ahead with the rally,
but they held it right next to the officersT July 4th
program. The 75th Rangers were put on alert. But
newsmen from CBS and ~NewsweekT attended and
filed stories. Mysteriously, the story never ran in
the papers, on the radio, or over television (GSB)
POISONING THE KIDDIES
New York (July) - The ~Washington PostT recently
printed this gem on J. Edgar Hoover: ~The FBI chief
will not touch the delicacies he receives from un-
known admirers; he fears someone might slip him
some poisoned food. He donates these delectables
to orphanages and other institutions.T (LNS)
AIRMEN MARCH 40 MILES THROUGH DESERT
TO PROTEST THE WAR
Mountain Home AFB, Idaho (August) - During the
first weekend in August, a group of airmen, led by
the grandson of one of the founders of the biggest
construction companies in Indochina, marched 40
miles thru the desert to protest the ~genocide being
conducted by the US Air Force in Southeast Asia.T
Air Force Capt. Larrie Knudsen, grandson of the
late M.H. Knudsen of Morrison-Knudsen-Brown-
Root (MKBR), called the company ~probably the
largest war profiteer in the state of idaho.T Their
contracts in Nam totalled more than $1 billion. The
march route stretches from Mountain Home AFB to
the MKBR hq in Boise. The company president, Bert
Perkins, said the company considered It an ~obliga-
tion and duty to respond to requests of the govern-
ment.T So did Alfred Krupp, a Nazi war industrialist
and he was found guilty of war crimes at Nurem-
burg. (source: Idaho Falls Post-Register)
DonTt dig the news ?
Make your own!
BLACK AND WHITE BROTHER CHARGED IN
FT HOOD UPRISING 7 MONTHS LATE
Killeen, Texas (July) - Kelvin Harvey and John
Priest were brought to the Ft Hood stockade from
Ft Leavenworth Disciplinary Barracks on July 7 to
face charges for the Dec 20 rebellion that took
place in the Hood stockade. They are also being
charged with assault on an officer and riot, and
Priest is also being charged with arson.
The riot involved 50 people. Harvey, a black man,
and Pirest, who is white, are the only ones being
charged.
The uprising began when a prisoner in ~CT com-
pound, the segregated compound of the stockade,
was denied medical attention. The man _ hadn't
eaten for several days, and had been reportedly
beaten by guards. As the manTs condition worsened,
other prisoners in ~CT compound began banging on
the walis in hopes of calling attention to the situa-
tion. They were ignored, and many of the men gave
up and went to bed.
Shortly afterwards, they were awakened abruptly
to discover that the building was on fire. About 100
MPs were brought in to smash the uprising which
now included C,D, and E compounds.
The brass tried to pass the rebellion off as a
racial disturbance, but it wasnTt. According to
those who participated, it was a rebellion against
stockade conditions. Some of the grievances were:
85% of the prison is non-white, while less than 10%
of the guards were non-white; most of the prisoners
in segregated are non-white; prisoners are con-
stantly harassed and goaded; black inmates are not
allowed to exchange the clenched fist salute; racial
slurs are used against the inmates; medical atten-
tion is inadequate; cell conditions are unsanitary;
solitary confinement is cruel and unusual punish-
ment (5x8 cells, poor food, etc.)
Harvey and Priest have been in solitary since July
7. No trial date has yet been set (LNS).
ANOTHER CRACK IN THE VOLAR MASK
Ft. Lewis (June) - A Seattle newspaper ran a front
page story describing how wonderful life is in the
2/37 Artillery. That unit wrote a letter to that paper
asking their team to come back so theyTd have beer
again in the mess hall. They also asked the reporter
who did the story to tell them where the private
rooms are so they can move in (L-MFP)
GHETTO REBELLION IN FLORIDA
Jacksonville (June) - After four days of street
fighting and $250,000 damage, the National Guard
was taken off alert on June 20 as local cops picked
up the pieces. The uprising in the black community
began ten days earlier when a fifteen-year-old
black manchild was gunned down by a white cop.
Fighting lasted four days, and 274 were arrested.
(source: LNS)
THE MOVEMENT GROWS IN SIBERIA
Adak Naval Station, Alaska (July 31) - As VOLAR
tumbles, and as Zumwalt rewrites his Z-Grams, we
keep on pushing. Two captives of the Navy, Michael
Gleaves and Dennis Rupert, were both busted
recently and charged with Article 134 (promoting
disloyalty) and Article 92 (failure to obey a lawful
order). Both charges came down cause they were
supposedly passing out underground papers and
pocket guides to Gi rights. Also, both are members
of the American ServicemenTs Union (ASU). Only if
no one knows can the Navy get away with this, But
passing the word is only one step down a long road.
Keep truckinT (ASU and The Bond)
~THE ONLY ARMY WE WILL SERVE IN IS THE
PUERTO RICAN LIBERATION ARMY '
New York (June) - In 1917, with the Jones Act the
US forced American citizenship on Puerto Ricans
and made them liable to the draft even though the
Puerto Rican elected legislature rejected it. On the
island today, there are so many guys refusing in-
duction and evading the draft that the government
canTt even begin prosecuting. The ROTC program in
Puerto Rico is also a failure. But now in New York,
a group of Puerto Ricans called the Young Lords
are refusing induction, and have just formed the
~New 65th InfantryT. It'll be made up of men and
women who were or are now in the US military.
(source: LNS)
NITRO JUNKIES - THE ARMYTS THE PUSHER
Milwaukee (June 30) - Several workers in an Army
plant have developed a physical dependence on
the nitroglycerine used to make rocket fuel. While
off the job for a weekend or more, the workers get
chest pains that won't quit until they return to work.
You donTt get high and you donTt get low. You just
have to go to work. ItTs kind of like Methadone.
Think about it. (LNS)
GETTING IT ON AT YOKOTA, JAPAN
Tokyo (July 22) - A rock festival was held in Fussa
Park on the outskirts of Tokyo to celebrate the birth
of a new GI underground paper, ~The First Amend-
mentT, and to welcome an anti-brass military coun-
selling project to town. 300 Gis turned out, as well
as a hundred Japanese and American civilians.
People danced thru rain and wind, and that was
only the beginning! (Hobbit News Service)
CASE HIGH SCHOOL TROUNCES ARMY
Milwaukee (late June) - Two US Army recruiters
got a warm reception at Case HS. Students ripped
up the recruiting pamphlets, and then grabbed the
recruitersT hats and ripped those up, too. The two
recruiters had to call their superior officers to get
permission to leave the school building out of
uniform (LNS).
OH MY BACK - BOOT CAMP ATROCITIES
Parris island, S.C. (July 7) - 39 recruits were hos-
pitalized with kidney trouble, complaining of back
aches. The Gis were ordered to do push-ups for 15
to 30 minutes during their first week of training.
The Di was slapped on the wrist (SFC).
BRACE YOURSELF FOR A SHOCKER
San Francisco (April 8) - Members of a local Army
Reserve PSYOPS unit were recently tortured during
training. The object of this terror, according to a
Reserve colonel, was to ~prepare men for the kind of
treatment they might expect if captured.T While
captives of this Reserve unit, they were given elec-
trical shocks, chained to logs, and then thrown in a
deep pond. (San Francisco Chronicle)
AIRMEN KEEP MARCHING IN LONDON
London (June) - In early June, 300 brothers, most of
them airmen, marched to the US embassy. They
brought with them a petition condemning Nixon's
war against Indochina, signed by 1000 active duty
US servicemen. Well, some people were busted for
~participating in a demonstration in a foreign coun-
try.. A Captain by the name of Culver was among
those busted. Well, a couple of weeks later, there
was another demonstration to protest the arrests.
Turnout and support was terrific, and there were no
arrests (SFC).
THIEU REWRITES SAIGON CONSTITUTION
IN ORDER TO ARREST STUDENT LEADER
Saigon (Aug) - The most popular student leader in
all of South Vietnam, Huyn Tan Mam, is now in a
tiger cage prison awaiting trial for treason. His
crime: advocating peace, independence and neu-
_ trality by drafting a Peoples Peace Treaty with
American students almost a year ago. Thieu has
had Mam tried once already before a military court,
but a civil court threw out the conviction since at
that time even Thieu couldn't try a civilian in a
military court. ThieuTs answer was to rewrite the
Constitution. Thieu is now running against no one
in the fall elections, another great victory for the
great American policy of democracy for all, like it
or not. To make sure that no one knows about the
fraud, Thieu has arrested the editor of SaigonTs
largest daily newspaper, Ngo Cong Duc (SFC).
NO SANCTUARY FOR GEN. WESTMORELAND
Anniston, Alabama (July 31) - Gis and WACs United
Against the War at Ft. McClellan got together 299
signatures for the Peoples Peace Treaty, and then
tried to force them down the throat of Gen. West-
moreland when he visited the base. 229 signatures
was too much to swallow, causing Wastemoreland
to choke (Guardian)
WE ARE ALL UNDESIRABLES
Washington (Aug) - In the past year, over 14,000
Gis were handed undesirable discharges by the
Army alone. ThatTs 2.3% (L-MFP)
BROOKLYN SECEDES
New York (July) - More than 3000 people took part
in an antiwar rally in Prospect Park. It was organ-
ized by a group called the Coalition to Take Brook-
lyn Out of the War. 75 organizations are in it. The
rally was led by 200 Nam vets who spent the night
in the park where they held a memorial service for
Indochinese and US war casualties. (Guardian)
AP Wirephote
CLIMAXING A two-day march from Concord,
Vietnam veterans arrived in Boston, carrying
plastic rifles and chanting anti-war slogans, un-
concerned with a flag-carrying Boston policeman.
ASU ORGNIZER FIGHTS SKAG IN NAM AND
GETS FRAMED FOR PUSHING BY ARMY!
Da Nang (late July) - PFC Bob Michener, an active
organizer of the American ServicemenTs Union and
grunt in the 2/11 Artillery, 101st Abn, got together
28 guys and with them drew up a statement expo-
sing war crimes in the Tay Ninh region. That state-
ment was released to the public at the Winter
Soldier Investigation, and since then the heat has
never let up on Bob.
He was busted by CID and MI on May 13, thrown
in the box at Camp Eagle, and then flown to the Da
Nang stockade. Two days before the bust, the ASU
was told that Gis had overheard officers in the 2/11
talking about how Bob would be ~gotten.T Bob was
charged with possession and sale of both weed and
heroin, even though BobTs people knew he was
trying to get other guys to kick. ItTs kind of strange
that theyTd charge Bob with dealing junk just as it
hits the papers that the CIA and the Saigon tyrants
have been pushing the shit for years. Also strange
is the fact that the MI pigs burned all the evidence
and that Bob was pistol whipped at Da Nang. More
on this case next issue (ASU and The Bond)
INDIANS FIGHT TO REGAIN LAND
Minneapolis (June) - Back in mid-May, Indians
from all over the country got together to take back
abandoned federal ijand at the Twin City Naval Air
Station. The Navy left the base entirely, and the city
didnTt even want it for a zoo. According to the Sioux
Treaty of 1868, unused Federal land automatically
becomes Indian land again. So our friends took it
to set up a village. One morning at 5am, five hours
before Senator Mondale was to meet with them,
their camp was broken into by 150 US marshalls,
county deputies, naval reservists, and Marines.
Two weeks later, the scene repeated itself in
Richmond, California where 50 Indians seized an
abandoned Nike missile base. Just four days earlier
their village on Alcatraz Island was destroyed by
federal marshalls. So the Indians took back the
Nike base to set up a school and health clinic. The
US government couldnTt handle this creative use
of land which had been neglected for ten years. So
armed US marshalls soon broke up this settlement.
In July, Indians in Chicago also settled into an
abandoned Nike missile site. They, too, were driven
away by Chicago's finest.
lf you are ever ordered to take back military land
which had been abandoned and is now under Indian
care, you have a legal obligation to disobey this
illegal order. (LNS)
CHECK AFRO COMBS AT THE DOOR
Hong Kong (July) - R&R has been in trouble since
Sept 1970 when over 30 black Gis and one white GI
were hauled away in British military trucks to a
prison on Stonecutters Island for refsuing to get
on a plane bound for Nam. From then on, Hong
Kong police have escorted departing Gis right to
the planes. But on July 4, a black GI, Pvt. Robert H.
Miller, was arrested by Hong Kong police and
charged with possession of an offensive weapon
and disorderly conduct. The weapon was his afro
comb. Disorderly could have been a handshake.
Now black Gis coming Into Hong Kong are required
to check their afro-combs at Customs (PNS).
SOMEONE WASN'T LOOKING
Thailand (June 28) - 400,000 rifle bullets for M-16s
were stolen from the American ammo depot. The
rounds cost $1 each (SFC).
SCOUTS EARN NEW BADGES FROM THE FBI
New York (July) - A couple of months ago, some
friends stole several hundred pounds of secret
documents from an FBI office in Media, Pennsyl-
vania. One of those documents showed that the FBI
is encouraging Boy Scouts to inform on family and
friends, reporting suspicious activity to local units
(source: Liberation News Service)
SAFETY COUNTS YOU BETCHA!
New York (July) - According to US Dept of Labor
statistics, every 8 minutes, one person will be killed
on the job, 148 workers seriously disabled, and
500 hurt. Every day, that reads, 55 dead, 8500 dis-
abled, and more than 27,000 hurt. They also predic-
ted that 3 of every 4 young men and women who
enter the job market in 1971 will be disabled before
they retire. (LNS)
JUST A HOP, SKIP AND A JUMP
Stockholm (July 9) - First Lt John Vequist, the
first American officer to seek asylum in Sweden to
avoid being sent to Vietnam, has been given a
Swedish residence permit. This indicates a loosen-
ing up from before (SFC(.
THATTS SOME GOOD BARBEQUE SAUCE
Saigon (Jund 25) - Unknown persons presumed to
be American airmen threw three grenades into a
bbq dinner for MPs. 15 MPs were wounded (SFC).
HOLLAND TELLS NIXON TO FORGET IT AND
ACCEPTS DESERTER
Amsterdam (June) - SN Ralph Waver, a ~self-retired
member of the US NavyT can now live in Holland
freely. Arrested in June, US authorities wanted the
Dutch government to turn Waver over to them.
Although they'd done this before, this time they
changed their minds. Could be a new trend. For
more info, contact ~Vietnam BulletinT, Weesperstraat
51, Amsterdam, Holland (NOMLAC).
ENTIRE SPD GOES AWOL TOGETHER
Ft. Campbell (July) - The entire population of SPD
(or PCF if thatTs your style) took off one weekend
and still hadnTt made it back the following Tues.
A very together action considering thereTs no public
transportation from the base to the next town,
which is eight long miles away (CAMP News)
ARTICLE 138 - HIDDEN WEAPON
BROTHER WINS A DISCHARGE
Philippines (July) - A brother filed Article 138 char-
ges against the CG at Clark AFB. Within three days
he was called in and shown his papers for an honor-
able discharge, and told he could either file his
charges from Thailand, or take the discharge andT
go home quickly. Others trying this approach
should let us know of their results (CAMP News)
NAVY SETS NEW WORK STANDARDS
North Chicago (June) - In the radar school at Great
Lakes, a chief recently held a quickie Inspection
of a barracks. When he found the place not-so-
clean, he said, ~You guys didnTt do a good job. How
do you guys work, anyway?T Brothers there told
him, ~Why we work just like we get paid - a little
every two weeks.T (Navy Times Are Changing)
IMPERIALISM IS NO PICNIC
Kinshasa, Congo (July) - Major Hugh Bauer of the
US Military Mission to the Congro was killed by a
crocodile while taking a dip in the river during a
Sunday picnic with friends. (LNS)
Z-GRAMS TESTED - GOOD FOR PEANUT
BUTTER AND NOT MUCH ELSE
San Diego (Aug) - The carrier USS ConstellaionTs
got a hot line, the CaptainTs gripe line. Recently it
got a real workout. First day, there were 70 requests
for peanut butter at every meal. Request granted.
Second day, 70 requests for music in the mess halls.
Request granted. Third day, 70 requests for no in-
spections at the end of the cruise. Snap went the
Capt. He declared that there was a conspiracy out
to get him, and closed down the hot line. So much
for the new action Navy. (CAMP News)
OKINAWA -
LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT
The first American to visit Okinawa, a beautiful
island in the chain that runs from Japan to Taiwan,
came with the idea that it should be liberated from
Japan, and be included as a foothold of ~our mara-
time rights in the East.T This stomping militarist,
Commodore Matthew Perry, soon made it clear
what good times this would bring to the Okinawan
people"he paraded his troops and heavy guns,
charged into the kingTs palace without invitation,
and demanded gifts. One of his favorites was a
great temple bell, with this saying cast around it:
~May the sound of this bell shatter illusory dreams,
perfect the souls of mankind, and enable the king
and his subjects to live so virtuously that barbarians
will find no occasion to invade the kingdom.T The
Okinawans were forced to present the bell to the US
Naval Academy, where every year it rings out the
score in the Army-Navy game.
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Since World War Il, Okinawa .has become one of
the major Amerikan bases in Asia. License plates on
Amerikan vehicles are dominated by the slogan
~Keystone of the Pacific,T and more of the island is
fenced in every year to make the keystone stronger.
Every fence is plastered with signs warning, ~Re-
stricted Area"US Government Property"Keep out.T
The Okinawans who used to farm the land now must
work as Amerikan slaves at 30 cents an hour on the
base and in the houses of lifers.
With the military came US business to take over
the finest bays and beaches in the area for refine-
ries to gas the war machine. Every day Okinawans
see B-52s leave for S.E. Asia. The Okinawans live
under the dictatorship of the US High Commissioner
and have no say about what schemes Amerikan
military planners have for their island. Okinawa is
a storehouse for chemical, biological and nuclear
weapons ready to be used on other Asian people.
Faced with this death machine, the Okinawans
continue to fight as their ancestors did against
Chinese and Japanese invaders. Last December, an
American officer killed an Okinawan woman with a
truck and was immediately released. The people
countered this outrage by burning over 80 Ameri-
kan MP and pig cars. Black and white Gls at Kadena
Air Base supported the demonstrations: they passed
Out leaflets of support and many refused riot duty.
But the brass aren't satisfied with racist attacks
and oppression of Okinawans, and so run the same
shit on Gls. But Gls are also fighting back, and have
legal help to shove the shit back where it came from.
In the past several months .. .
LIFERS FREAK ON KNUCKLE-KNOCKING
Lifers who donTt dig signs of solidarity, especially
among black Gls, _ prohibited knuckle-knocking.
On April 26, some black Gils raced through the NCO
barracks, overturned chairs and broke windows to
protest the order. Later about 15 brothers were
ordered by a Captain and several pistol-waving MPs
to disperse as they stood outside their barracks.
They refused. Pvt Arnold Clark was charged with
disrespect and participation in a riot. During the
special court martial, the pigsT only witness on the
disrespect charge was the Captain. But ClarkTs wit-
ness against the charge had ETSTd, so the lawyer
demanded that this witness should be returned at
military expense under paragraph 115, Manual for
Court Martial. The Convening Authority refused,
violating the UCMJ. The judge decided that since
this witness could have refuted the Captain's testi-
mony, the charges should be dismissed.
ARTICLE 138
PFC Tony Preston filed Article 138 charges
against his CO for prejudice and harrassment. The
CO came back with an Article 15. Preston demanded
a Special, and was put on base restriction until he
was acquitted 41 days later. His lawyer filed to dis-
miss charges, and argued that Preston might have
taken the Article 15 if heTd known that he would
have to spend 41 of a possible 60 days on restriction.
Another lifer eats some of his own.
SPIRIT IN THE DARK
On June 24, Marine Pvt Michael Anderson was
tried in General Court for allegedly threatening a
Major with : ~You may be a Major tonight, but tom-
Oorrow you'll be a Captain or. dead.T In the same
court, he was charged with maiming a sergeant.
Both of these incidents happened at night. The sgt
wasn't wearing his glasses, was under the influence
of medication, and later misidentified three men in
a lineup. This pig was the prosecutionTs only wit-
ness, while ten witnesses swore Anderson wasn't
anywhere near the scene. On the threat charge,
the Major was also the only witness, and testified
that he heard Anderson make the threat from a
group of 25-black Gls and 25 Okinawan women
over 75 yards away! This middle-aged white Sou-
therner stared for three solid minutes at the court
recorder when he was asked to identify the accused.
Despite all of these fuckups, the Judge changed
the threat wording to, ~I'm going to kill that Major,T
found Anderson guilty, gave him one year at hard
labor a BCD, and forfeiture of all pay. He ruled not
guilty on the maiming charge. If the threat charge
had been tried as usual in a Special, heTd have
gotten a maximum six months and maybe a BCD.
So these racists shafted a black Marine with a wife
and two kids, who has no education, and who pro-
bably won't get back his job with US Steel.
BLACK PVT STANDS WITH OKINAWANS
This spring Okinawans called for a general strike,
and Gls were assigned to riot duty. To many Gls,
it was clear who the enemy was, as it had been clear
for 43 black Gls in the 82d Airborne who refused to
vamp on people in Chicago during the unDemocratic
convention of 1968. Two days before the strike, Pvt
Adams of 1st Special Forces Group, refused riot
duty. He laid it out this way:
~| didnTt want to go out and club lots of Okinawan
people becuase thatTs what the Pig is doing to Black
people back in the States. | feel that the Okinawan
PeopleTs struggle is the same struggle as all oppres-
sed (or Third World) people"against one common
foe"the fascist, Amerikan military regime. |, as a
member of the Third World, refuse to harm my bro-
thers and sisters for these racist, unethical maniacs
who cause so many people suffering. We people of a
Third World frame of mind must and we will fight
to the last man. We need solidarity among oppressed
people.T
THE KEYSTONE CRUMBLES
The pigs have tried to divide the fucked-over Gis
from the people of Okinawa. Riot duty for three or
four days builds anger among Gls which lifers hope
will drive them to keep the people down. The Oki-
nawans in this jam build up their own hatreds
against Gls who carry out the orders. But the split
has been bridged. Now Gls join in snake-dancing
demonstrations, getting high from the enthusiasm
of the Okinawans. And Okinawans supported the
meeting for ~Brotherhood and UnityT held by Gls
to oppose Armed Forces Day on May 16. People
who used to shout ~Yankee Go Home!T now shout
~Antiwar Gls join us!T
The keystone of the Pacific is starting to crumble,
and is now the keystone of the Pacific resistance.
The Okinawan people will get back their land, and
everything that was ripped off by Amerika for the
last hundred years. a)
oHe took the wraps off our secret weapon!�
,
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pit PENTAGON PAPER QUOTES
small one.T
~The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to
be believed. The primitive simplicity of their minds
renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a
Hitler
~Listen, if you think any American official is going
to tell you the truth, then youTre stupid!
that? Stupid! "Arthur Syivester (Asst. Sec. of Defense
and chief of military public relations in Vietnam) spoken
to Morley Safer (CBS newsman) in Saigon, July 15, 1965.
Did you hear
WAF SISTER REFUSES ORDERS TO THE PHILIPPINES
Norma Welshams is a WAF at Travis Air Force Base in California. After two years in, she got herself
a job as an x-ray technician at David Grant Medical Center, where she helped piece together guys
returning from the Nam. But in June she got orderes for the Philippines, putting her in a real jam. On the
one hand, she enjoys medical work. But on the other, she strongly opposes the presence of the American
military in other countries.
Take the Philippines. HereTs a country where 80% of the income and wealth is in the hands of less
than 10% of the people, and 8% of the labor force unemployed with 25% underemployed. Three-fourths
of the people who have jobs make under $600 a year. One reason they make so little is that for every dollar
invested there by American businessmen, three dollars leaves. Part of the US military mission is devoted
to keeping an unpopular tyrant (Ferdinand Marcos) in power, so that he, in turn, can favor American
investments and make possible the rip-off of the Filippino land and people. The other main military
function there is as a rear area strike base and supply depot for the war against Indochina.
Norma wants nothing to do with both of those functions. She knows that by refusing orders she risks
1-5 years. The following interview shows why sheTs taking that risk. By the way, Norma needs support.
Do as she has done, and write her c/o Travisty, PO Box 487, Suisun City, California 94585.
Travisty: How did you feel when you received
notice of your assignment?
Norma: I spent a great deal of time analyzing the
situation in the Philippines. There are hard feel-
ings toward the Americans by the Filippinos.
They donTt want us there. They want us to leave
and I think we should.
Then I started thinking about all the other coun-
tries we have military bases in and they donTt
want us either. Having all those bases in all those
countries looks suspicious to me and ITm sure it
looks suspicious to them. The military establish-
ment says we are in all those foreign countries to
prevent the spread of communism, when in actual.
ity we are in a better position to ~take over the
worldT since we have more foreign military bases
than any other country (3,401 to be exact).
Travisty: The leaders of our country also tell us
that we are protecting our democratic system.
Do you think thatTs true?
Norma: No! First of all we go over there to estab-
lish military power. I think that it is not for them
at all, it is for us. To protect us and help us take
over the world. I donTt think that the statement
~to make the world free for democracyT is right.
Why is it up to us to make the world free for our
brand of democracy? Why canTt people decide
for themselves what kind of government they
want? Certainly when American military people
are being stabbed, drowned, and beaten up, it
should be perfectly clear to our government that
we are not wanted over there. We should get the
hell out.
Trav: In light of what youTve said, how do you
see your role in the military? Since you are re-
fusing to go to a foreign country and not trying to
get out of the military, do you feel there is a need
for a defensive military?
Norma: ITm not sure we need a defensive military.
But if we do, it is indeed the only kind we need. I
cannot support one that invades other countries
or intervenes in another countryTs civil war. We
already have enough bombs and ships to destroy
the whole world. We donTt even need a military.
We just have to push some buttons. I feel bad
about serving in the military in any way, but I did
sign a contract. I work in the hospital and I help
people, wounded men from Vietnam and little
kids who break their arms. Everyone in this coun-
try supports the war in some way when they pay
taxes and go to work.
The latest polls show that 73% of the people in
this country donTt support the war, but we are
still there. If we really had a democracy we would
pull out. Even if there were no other facts, this
alone should make us wonder if our system isnTt
breaking down. Our government says we should
make changes through the system, but the way
our system is I donTt think we can. There is no
room in our system for the drastic changes we
need. We are too controlled by the military-indu-
strial complex to change. The people cannot
demonstrate their beliefs without the country
turning into a police state. They bring out the
tear gas and guns. ItTs really frightening to take
a stand. But I for one cannot support it any longer.
Trav: Why do you think our country does not
respond to the will of the people and is so un-
willing to grant them their human rights?
Norma: Because they would have to put the will
of the people before their own profit. That would
mean better housing, better medical care for all
the people, more food, more jobs, etc., instead of
bigger bombs, more wars, and higher salaries for
government officials. ItTs an imbalance of power.
ThereTs a funny saying in our country, everyone is
equal. But some people are more equal than others.
Trav: What made this inequality?
Norma: MONEY! The people who own big industry
have the money and the power. They tell us how
to think and live through advertisements. They
tell us to buy this and that and we canTt live with-
out all the things they tell us to buy. So most of
us are so involved in the race to acquire all these
things that we donTt have time to think about what
we are really doing. We just consume! It seems as
if that is what they want us to do. To them we are
just consumers, not human beings.
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Trav: How do you see this aspect of American
society being manifested in the military?
Norma: In the military it is very hard not to be-
come a zombie. You stifle any opposition in your-
self. You just do what you are told and even stifle
your thoughts. Then all of a sudden you stop and
look at yourself and you say...what am I doing?
What is this thing that has me so enveloped that
I canTt even think anymore? ITm not even myself
anymore. ITm just a robot...It makes you stop and
think. They dangle the promotions over you like
you dangle a carrot over a horseTs nose. If you are
a good little girl or boy, do your job well and donTt
make any trouble, then you will get promoted.
The reason people want to get promoted is be-
cause there is more money to buy more things.
And you donTt have to do so many shitty details.
Trav: Do you think that promotions are the only
thing that keep people from standing up for their
beliefs?
Norma: It goes deeper I think. You are indoctri-
nated and brainwashed when you first come into
the service. ThatTs what basic training is all about.
They want to steal your individual thoughts from
you. You have to think of yourself as part of the
Air Force ~missionT. ItTs implanted in you that it
would mean disaster if you would ever refuse an
order or do something wrong. You feel like the
heavens would open up, lightning would strike
you down, and the earth would swallow you. So
you automatically shove all those thoughts aside
before you have a chance to enact any of them.
Unless you take stock of your life and what is
happening to you in the military, you are still a
zombie.
A MARCH
AT CLARK AF'B
Trav: What have you done to overcome this fear?
Norma: I really havenTt overcome it. I just feel it
is more important for me to stand up for my be-
liefs than it is for me to overlook them and do
what they tell me. That would be the easier thing
to do but I canTt do that. Even if I have to go to
jail they wonTt break my spirit.
Dear Bulkhead,
Thanks for the paper. | would like to receive it every
time it comes out. I'd also appreciate any other literature
you can send me to help combat the injustic of the OD.
I'm at LZ Weight Davis about 30 miles south of Pleiku.
Things are going well here. In March a peoples hero (still
unknown) fragged our orderly room and demolished a
lifers office. Then we got rid of our super pig CO, Cpt.
~Georgie BoyT Brandner. In addition to spending all his
time trying to harass the company and consistently
making an ass of himself in front of the EMs, he was
caught one night drunk on his knees, begging a dink
whore to screw him for $50. He was for some strange
reason ~replacedT several weeks later. George was a
winner. This is the kind of high quality leadership Sam
sends to lead us over here.
The peace demonstrations the beginning of this month
(April) were very encouraging to most of us in Vietnam.
ItTs a relief to at least know that the people cannot be
bullshitted by the government. Please keep it up.
Well, be cool and I'll keep you informed of any note-
worthy happenings.
Dear Bulkhead,
| wish that your paper could do a small scan on Camp Han-
sen. This place needs its lid blown off! | was at Parris Island
for fifteen months and saw the outrageous conduct of the
Drill Instructors; as well as non-training personnel there. /
though that | had left it all behind until | arrived at Camp Han-
sen. This place is almost similar to Parris Island in many re-
spects. There are many cases of needless harrassment. There
is great racial strife with our Black Brothers"created by the
Man more than by ourselves.
Although the suicide rate here isn't as high as it was at Par-
ris Island it is more than compensated for by the rapid in-
crease of drug addiction that Chapman says does not exist in
the Marine Corps. The Ville, outside the camp, is becoming a
real threat to life and limb. At the dispensary we see the re-
sults of much of this. Everything from bloody noses to frac-
tured skulls, rapes and an occasional murder. Where are the
MPigs? Probably trying to bust some GI for smoking dope,
and minding his own business. The chowhalls are the worst
I've ever eaten in since being in the service!
When you try to get justice"unless you ~re a pig"itTs impos-
sible. I've gone the path a few times and failed even when |
LETTERS
Dear Bulkhead,
HereTs a little poem for you. Feel free to print it:
There stands a man with a vacant stare
A sagging gut and falling hair
Retirement pay is his only prayer
The Lifer
Re-up now, you hear him say
Live your life the Army way
Those who do will curse the day
The Lifer
Serving proudly he will proclaim
But what he serves is rank and name
Sucking ass is his way to fame
The Lifer
There he stands for all to see
A solid lump of O.D.
A drag upon society
The Lifer
A jug of booze, perhaps a whore
He can't conceive of anything more
A man who's rotten to the core.
The Lifer
by Bill, ex-grunt
Dear Bulkhead,
I'm getting shafted! About a month ago, a wandering
barracks officer noticed a stack of newspapers in my bar-
racks, which he knew belonged to me. That afternoon |
was called in by..the Legal Officer of my squadron. They
searched my locker and found 65 copies of the Bulkhead.
They haven't prefered charges yet. They're still waiting
for the investigation to turn something up. | used to work
in Communications. They've pulled my clearance so !
lost my job. Now they've refused me the right to move off
base. The reason: they donTt want to give me the oppor-
tunity to get into trouble. Fuck them. I've been living
off base for a week now. | am a member of the ASU and
would appreciate any type of support you could offer.
Do you know any good ways | could get a discharge?
Respectfully,
R.D.
Dear Bulkhead,
This is M. from 29 Palms again. Just a letter to tell you
how the Green Son of a Bitch is treating me now. ITm up
for office hours or possible court martial for UA of 2 days.
They drove me to it, the fascist pigs. Let me explain.
I'm a lifeguard at the swimming pools now, and we're
not supposed to catch guard or anything. So far in the last
month ITve had one day off. We're supposed to have every
other day and weekend off. Well, so far even on my day
off they won't leave me alone. Like one night we had a
party and the next day was my day off. Well, a friend of
mine died that night after we took him to the hospital.
And the following day the pigs came out to my house, and
said CID wanted me because they thought there was foul
play. Just because we took him to the hospital to try and
save his life. On another day they came out and said | had
working party. Then this last week they stuck me on guard.
And thatTs when | went UA cause see ITm married and the
pigs are fucking all over me. Now for 2 days UA they're
trying to put me in the brig for six months. Sure | was
probation but they made me break it. If you would please
send me a Bulkhead newspaper. | haven't got one yet.
Please print this letter so other brothers and sisters can
see what they're trying to do. Cause we stick up to them
and donTt go along with them. ~I'm not a robot; I'm me.T
All Power to the People
Death to the War Pigs,
Brother M.
Brothers,
| received one of your papers from another brother here
and | found it very interesting and very true. Keep up the
work brothers and maybe we will be able to get the hell
out of here and leave these people alone. They (the
Vietnamese people) do not want our help anyway, and
they have proved that by shooting at us and wrecking our
vehicles. Keep up the good work, brothers.
a brother in prison (Army)
Dave S.
PS: There are many brothers here who feel the same as !
do about this shit.
Mac
Dear Mac,
Good to hear from you. The peace demonstration season
is over but there is still a lot of stuff going on. | think in
general the demonstrations had a good effect. People
were really flipped out by the stuff pulled off by vets. |
guess a lot of people feel that they really know what they
are talking about since they've been there and seen it a
lot. That means that a lot of guys can do good work for
the anti-war movement when they get out of the service
instead of joining the lines at the unemployment Office.
| have to admit that there is one thing that bothered me
a little about your letter. You talk about ~a dink whore.T
it made me think a lot about Vietnam. From what we have
heard, one of the few ways that the Vietnamese can get US
dollars is for Vietnamese women to sell themselves to Gls.
Prostitution is an important part of the economy. Holy
shit, is this the kind of democracy that the US is bringing
to Vietnam. No wonder they donTt want us there. The US
has bombed the shit out of their villages and driven their
women folk into refugee camps and cities where they sur-
vive by being hookers. | guess | see the same scene here
in SF a lot. Fat pigs in big cadillacs cruising through the
black neighborhoods picking up women to fuck. They
used to do it right near where | worked. | really wanted
to off one of those dudes. What can you do? We really
are taught weird attitudes toward women and how they
are supposed to meet our needs when we grow up. It's
hard too for men to see the thing from the perspective of
women, but | would sure hate to be checked out and
bought by some slimy dude in a big cadillac.
Be cool. Write when you get time. We always have time
to keep in touch. Let me know if you are getting our mail.
Power to the People
Chris, a Bulkhead brother
"ARE YO
CRAZY ?
WE'RE SURRGQUNDED
Bulkhead,
ITve come across your paper and think itTs far-out. |
was wondering if you are aware of the new type of per-
sonnel who are joining the service now. The ~Jesus-FreaksT
(if you're hip to them) are joining to ~serve their country.T
And, as has been my experience in the Coast Guard, not
only are they serving their country, but also trying to con-
vert everyone else to their Jesus-trip. So, perhaps what the
military is losing in heads may be gained in the Jesus
freaks. LetTs hope not!
Jesus loves me
This | know.
~Cause the Jesus-freaks
Told me so.
~Love your enemyT
Jesus said.
So join the military
And kill them dead.
Keep the word
and share the faith
Support the Government
to spread the hate.
But God is love.
in reality "
So faith is this
or hypocracy.
Dale F.
was in the right. Now things are a little better for me through
my association with Mark Amsterdam, a civilian lawyer who
defends G!s over here.
In Nam they are fragging pigs, and in the States publicity
making is easy to get. Okinawa is a pigTs haven, and as usual
the Marines are at the bottom of the pit as far as anything
goes. You mentioned Kadena in your paper and Demand for
Freedom. To the MarinesT eye, Kadena is a paradise in com-
parison to Hansen.
Oppression is so bad that all efforts on my part and the
others has been stopped before itTs started. The Marines here
hate, but are scared to death to fight it.
Mark my words, this summer Camp Hansen will need help.
ItTs going to be long and hot | am no know-it-all"just a very
serious person who wants a big fast change, and a break for
the Marines at Hansen.
a Marine brother
Camp Hansen, Okinawa
To the Staff
| have been receiving your papers since Feb. | really
dig it. | know the people | distributed it too liked it. You
do most definitely have it together. Myself and other
friends are going to unite and get things rolling here at
Fort Garbage. | would appreciate any and all assistance
you are able to give. Literature, NLF banners, stickers,
tips on how far we can go legally or anything else. We've
already got the brass, CID and a lot of NCOs scared shit-
less. This weekend we are going to hold a rally outside of
the main gate, our friends and the staff of the paper ~Last
Harrass.T We have got to let these war mongrel pigs know
that we're sick and tired of their bullshit, all of their
fucking games have got to cease. As of now we are lacking
money, so whatever you are able to send is far out. We are
all together and right, so we've got it. Please send 100
copies of your latest edition of the paper. | really am a
prisoner. Thank you.
Steve
Fort Gordon, Ga.
WHAT Do You
MEAN ** WE,�
SARGE ?
Dear Bulkhead,
Was super glad to find out there is someone doing
something about the Big Brother and number game.
was picked up by yours truly the FBI on | was at
work in My folks and a very good
friend called me fifteen minutes ahead of them, but before
! could close the store | was busted. | have been in three
brigs: Treasure Island, Camp Pendleton, and finally El
Toro. | was released for duty pending my court martial. v]
was AWOL 11 months/first offense. Right now | need no
help but others do. | am writing a small story of my ex-
periences in the brig and the USMC.! would only like ten
copies because of the package size. | am going to try and
get a couple of copies to the brig.
Love and Peace
John
Hello,
HereTs a buck. | received my second copy, recently, of
your paper. | deeply appreciate what you're doing. Some
day we will create a good America.
You'll be happy to know that in my 3 months here in
Guam | have gotten both of my Capts in trouble by higher
ups and also the CMAA for the base. HeTs so blown out
that heTs asked for a transfer. I've also accomplished a
couple of good changes in favor of the EM.
Peace,
Dick
GUARDSMEN AVOID RIOT CONTROL
SOME SWITCH SIDES
Boston (June) - When Guard units pulled extra duty
in anticipation of antiwar street actions, large
groups of Guardsmen never answered their phones
which would have called them to duty. And at the
MayDay demonstration in Washington, one group
of Guardsmen got gassed by police while talking
with street people. Twenty people cut out of one
detention pen in an escape made possible by sym-
pathetic Guardsmen. You're beautiful (Redline).
NAM VETS MARCH AND SUPPORT CAIRO,
ILLINOIS BLACK COMMUNITY
Kansas City, Mo. (July 4) - The Missouri-Kansas
chapter of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War
(VVAW) did mock search and destroy missions in
parks around the city. In the evening, one thousand.
people held a candlelight march against the war.
But back at their base camp, the vets made plans
to help in the defense of the black community of
Cairo, Illinois, which for months has been under
attack by white racist organizations like the KKK.
On the East Coast, in Rhode Island, another
group of Nam Vets Against the War marched in the
traditional July 4 parade. City officials told them
theyTd be busted if they marched. But they marched
anyway, took it to court, and beat it cold. (LNS)
Gis MAKE THEIR PEACE WITH VIETNAMESE
Germany (July) - A treaty was drafted a year ago by
American and Vietnamese students which laid out
the details of a down-to-earth peace between the
American and Vietnamese people. Since then,
hundreds of thousands of people have signed It,
including this group in Baumholder. ~Enclosed you
will find the PeopleTs Peace Treaty endorsed by
some 21 members of the HHHB, 8th Inf. Div. Arty.,
located in Baumholder, W. Germany. As active
duty servicemen, we perhaps more clearly than
many see and feel the need for true peace in our
time. Many of those who have affixed their names
to the Treaty are Vietnam veterans who have ob-
served the horror of the Indochina War on a_per-
sonal basis...T Copies of this treaty, plus legal info,
are available from us at 968 Valencia, San Francis-
co, Calif. 94110 (Great Speckled Bird, Atlanta)
IF PAUL REVERE COULD ONLY SEE THIS
Boston (June 1) - Hundreds of Vietnam vets, dressed
in battle fatigues and carrying toy rifles, marched
silently yesterday from Bunker Hill to Boston Com-
mon, after retracing Paul RevereTs route in reverse
to spread the alarm against the war in SE Asia. The
people chanted ~Bring ~em home, bring our brothers
home,T as they filed onto the Common. Then they
broke their plastic rifles and began what they called
the celebration of life. (SFC)
INSURRECTION IN ALBUQUERQUE
New Mexico (June) - In three days of fighting, nearly
$3 million worth of property was destroyed, inclu-
ding a police staton, several squad cars, and a sec-
tion of the Federal Building in Santa Fe. When police
opened fire on the people, two Chicanos were killed
and scores wounded. It finally took 1000 Guardsmen
plus state and local police to stop the celebration.
The uprising began one Sunday afternoon when
police tried to arrest four young Chicanos for drink-
ing wine at a rock concert. A crowd got together to
prevent the arrest, and fighting broke out. More
police came. More people joined the fight. And at
that point, according to the cityTs establishment
paper, ~The Albuquerque Journal,T ~...some officers
drew their pistols and fired, not in the air but at
members of the crowd.T At least one person fell in
the first volley, shot in the back. 131 were busted
that night. 283 the next. (source: LNS)
TRAVIS RIOT EXPLAINED
Travis AFB (June) - Gen. Jack Catton, commander
of Military Airlift Command, is kind of confused
about the uprising that closed down his base last
May. He said, ~...young blacks social sensitivity,
brought with them from ghetto pressures and frus-
trations, causes some to regard this as a calculated
effort by the establishment to dehumanize them.T
Catton also said that all supervisors ~...must know
that they are dealing with a new breed. Many of
todayTs young airmen come from backgrounds
which cause them to reject authority, question
everything and accept nothing from any source.T
Tell us, Jack, what kind of background did you
come from? (Travisty)
PACIFIC COUNSELLING SERVICE OFFICES
PUERTO RICAN DAY IN NEW YORK CITY
New York (June 13) - 100,000 people gathered
along Fifth Ave to watch 50,000 march in the an-
nual Puerto Rican Day parade. ,But those figures
don't include the 1000 white cops on duty along
the parade route. Early in the march, the Young
Lords Party and the Movement for Puerto Rican
Independence joined the parade. The police freaked,
and cut off the parade to fight the independistas.
People were chased for blocks, and the police beat
On everyone, since to them all Puerto Ricans look
alike (LNS).
HOW A GENERAL REWROTE THE CONSTITUTION
Fort Lewis (July) - In early spring, LewisTs own
Gen. Bolling refused to allow Gis to pass out the
Bill of Rights. As if that werenTt enough, he recently
banned distribution of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence, and busted six Gis and ten civilians who
were passing it out. The charge: passing out ~dis-
sident literatureT. After the General read the leaf-
lets, he ordered the charges changed to ~passing
out literature without the prior approval of the CG.T
(source: LNS)
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SFU San Francisco Chronicle
PNS Pacific News Service
LNS Liberation News Service
GSB The Great Speckled Bird
HNS Hobbit News Service
ASU American ServicemenTs Union
CAMP Chicago Area Military Project News
NOMLAC Newsletter on Military Law & Counselling
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FT ORD RIOT
VOLAR CANNED
June 27, a sunny Sunday afternoon at Fort Ord,
California, has to rate as one of the strangest days
that base has ever seen. In what turned out to be
one of their last desperate attempts to pacify 40,000
pissed off Gis, base Special Services took VOLAR to
heart and staged a rock concert on base. TheyTre
still wondering how it turned into an insurrection.
For starters, they booked in three super conserva-
tive groups: Canned Heat, Southwind, and Abdulah.
Then they marched several units of basic trainees
into the scorching stadium, and sat them all in
formation. Other Gis and friends got to sit on the
grass. But no one was left to themselves. CID, Army
Intelligence (or lack of it), and MPs were all over
the area with .45s, walkie-talkies, and the usual
garbage. Just to keep everyone jumpy, beer was
made available.
Canned Heat, who came on last, told the people,
~You shouldn't mind going to Vietnam. That's where
the best grass is.T Soon after that, a small fight
broke loose. MPs, primed for action, started firing
their .45s in the air, and then just moved on this
group of people swinging riot clubs at anyone they
could reach. One GI who was there said, ~MPs
moved into the crowd to break up a fight, and
started hitting all the people in the area.T
When MPs started carting off just black brothers
only, other brothers quickly came together. Every
one started bombing MPs with wine bottles. All the
time, Canned Heat played on. By the time they
finished, Gls were already heading for the streets.
A Greyhound bus was trashed and overturned. The
drill sergeant training school was broken into and
its supply building set on fire. Fire trucks were held
off easily since MPs started avoiding the uprising.
Later in the night, the celebration moved into
the Fourth Brigade area. A clerkTs classroom building
was broken into, as well as the PX and snack bar. At
this point, MPs started beating on people again. A
line of people who were waiting to get into the base
movie theater were vamped on suddenly. As the
When the uprising was written up in the big daily
newspapers, it was painted as a ~racial incident,T
thanks to the post information office. ItTs true that
there were racial incidents all over the base on the
27th (like MPs arresting only black Gls). But that
somehow doesnTt explain the beautiful strength of
guys of all races hammering away together at a
military beast thatTs stealing the best years of their
lives, and opposing people everywhere who're taking
back control of their own lives, their own countries.
It was best put by one white GI who said, ~Who are
you trying to kid? The guy right next to me throwing
rocks last night was a Brother!T
Evidently, the flak from the rebellion flew as far
as Washington. On June 29, Col. Ford, commander
of the Basic Administration Army Course (BAAC)
revealed the word: scrap VOLAR as of July 6. He
held a meeting, and ordered the re-establishment
fighting spread, base entertainment centers were } ~ GZ)
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A medic at the bus station reported, ~An MP, a
staff sergeant, ordered a Gi to put his hands on his
head and back up against a railing. The GI obeyed
the order. The MP sergeant then hit the GI in the
stomach with his club, kneed him in the groin, and
as the Gi doubled over, the MP hit him on the head.
When the victim fell to the ground, the MP sergeant
kicked him and jumped on him several times.T
Another medic said at least 100 people were
treated in Emergency on Sunday. A !ot of those in-
juries came down cause MPs had declared ~unmar-
tial lawT - beat people first, ask questions later.
Since the insurrection was directed at the buildings
and machinery of repression, almost all injuries
happened when MPs tried defending Army property
or when beserk lifers used the uprising and ~unmar-
tial lawT as an excuse to beat on _ people.
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of the merit system and the old hair regs, no more
beer in the barracks, tighter hold on AWOLs, etc.
The whole premise of VOLAR is that they can
take from you years of your life, treat you like an
animal, teach you to distrust everything you know
and everyone you trust, but that no one will mind
as long as thereTs go-go girls in the cafeteria, beer
in the barracks, and a little more hair on guysT
heads. When you get down to it, they think we're
fools enough to want to trade iron chains for plastic
ones. The uprising at Ord showed them that people
iust aren't willing to settle for a more comfortable
form of oppression. That's why theyTve scrapped
VOLAR in Col. FordTs outfit. And thatTs why they'll
scrap it elsewhere, too. Oo
