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UP AGAINST THEBULKHEADAETSSC-MB- 156SUBJECT:- Known and/or suspected Drug AbusersRRB tee ass eNO RR RRNEE1. You have been identified as \@"thOwh-OF-Suepeeted"drug"ebuser) (anhe ¢associate of a known or suspected drug abuser). As a resultactions ere now taken:&. You will remove the door fronRoom.j b. Effective this date you ore denied and lose ell pass privileres.in other words, you will not leave the physical limits of Pinder Barracksexcept to perform authorized or detailed militery duties.tour civilian and military drivers licenses sre suspended and theéreen USAREUR license pletes will be mncdiately ret.oved from your POV.ir driver licenses and creen plates will be Jelivered to the Orderlym for safekeeping.d. fou wili not wear civilian clothing under any. ircumstances. YourCiviilan Lotning will be inventoried and turned in to the Supply Roomfi safekeeping.e. Everything will be removed from your room except for your bed,bedding, wall locker, military clothing, toilet articles, and otheressentials. All electronic items, tables, cheirs, rujs, carpets, otherfurnishings, and all items on walls will be turned in to the upply Roomfor safekeeping. In other words, you will live in a bare room and have@ wall locker and bed.You will go to the community drug and alcohol assistance centerfor counsellin¢.g- You will undergo urine testing at leest three times o week.If you are married and live off post, you will be required toto the barracks and follow the orders in this letter.i. . You will live and sleep in your own room and you will not accept,buy, or take anything from another person.The above instructions and procedures are lawful orders and violsetionsore punishable in accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice.Theodore P. i.ohlerTHIS PAPER CANNOT LEGALLY BETAKEN FROM YOU. ACCORDING TODOD DIRECTIVE 1325.6 oPOSSESSIONOF UNAUTHORIZED MATERIAL MAYNOT BE PROHIBITED.�April 1973 Free to GlsGERMANY (jan"March) " HowTd you like your roombroken into at 2 am by a 1st Sgt who orders you to (1)piss in a jar, (2) give him your clothes, books andrecords, and (3) then takes your door off its hinges?According to the new Nelligen Anti-Drug regulations, allthis is olegal�, and more, as part of a three-prongedattack on the Gl movement in Germany. The brass isfollowing a policy of deport activists, harass civiliansupporters, and scare the rest into a fear-bound apathy.The brassTs most direct attack on the GI movementbegan with the so-called anti-drug regulations. Accordingto the reg, a oknown or suspected drug user� or anoassociate of a known or suspected drug user�T is subjectto: having the door taken off his room; losing all passprivileges; suspension of his diriving license; confiscationof his civilian clothes; having everything taken from hisroom except his wall locker and bed; being forced to gothrough drug treatment programs; being forced tosubmit to urine tests; being forced to move on base.A GI writing for a local underground GI paper calledoFighT bAckTT says, oAt the 34th Sig. Bn. it is a wellknown fact that any man might arbitrarily be consideredguilty of using drugs and be duly dealt with under theanti drug program. The policy is that you are guilty withno chance of any defense or plea of innocence.� oWhenofficers and NCOs can engage in dehumanizing tacticssuch as armed guard, or confinement, restriction,removal of doors, and all this with no charges against themen in question, then some change is badly needed!!!�Within ten days of the date the reg was issued, Glshad organized to fight back. At McNair Barracks inBerlin, up to 300 Gls marched in protest of the anti-drugcampaign.In Butzbach, Gls met to form an organization whichwould be strong enough to push back the BrassTscounter-offensive. They named their group theCommittee for GI Rights, and began printing anewspaper called oThe Truth.�T Our correspondent incontinued on page 2

THE PARISAGREEMENT:ME fi3 Ch 3 any fp yoreTHE STRUGGLE CONTINUESFor twenty years the United States government hashad one main goal in Vietnam: to keep it safe forAmerican capitalism; large markets for American pro-ducts, cheap labor to work in American controlledfactories, and valuable resources like oil for profit-minded American corporations. In communist NorthVietnam, large land holdings have been distributedamong all the farming people. Wealth and profits arereinvested in social programs. American investmentscould not survive under these conditions.During these twenty years, the US government hassaid it had one main goal in Vietnam: to prevent atakeover of the south by the north. Naturally! In orderto keep this excuse for US intervention and invasion inVietnam alive, the US invented the idea that VietnamwasnTt really one country, but two countries divided atthe DMZ. The Geneva Peace Accords of 1954 clearlystates that Vietnam is one country. The spectre of aninvasion or infiltration from the north into the southwas the official justification for intervention of UStroops and air power.The fact that this excuse was invented for theAmerican people didnTt make it real for the Vietnamese.After twenty years of fighting diplomatically, politically,and militarily, the majority of Vietnamese have forcedthe most powerful government in the world to backdown, withdraw its troops, and publicly retract itsowhole reason� for waging war against Vietnam. Thisfact alone makes the peace agreement a real victory forthe Vietnamese and all other people fighting against USWHICH SIDE HAS THE MOST TO LOSE?PRG: the Provisional Revolutionary Government(PRG), led by the National Liberation Front (NLF),represents both communists and non-communists. It hashad the support of most Vietnamese peasants since1945, when land was taken from landlords and redistri-buted. But also in the cities, the PRG has won muchsupport, especially since Thieu declared martial law.Even though the PRG gets material aid from outsideVietnam, they accept no foreign advisors or troops, andthe people see them fighting in the tradition of Viet-namese independence and self-determination. The Parisagreements make it clear to the world as it is to mostVietnamese that northern troops in the south are notoforeign troops.�THIEU: The Saigon government under Thieu is notpopular in the cities where his army and police suppressmost overt anti-war or anti-government activity. Thisincludes a large number of neutralists who are notcommunist but are very opposed to Thieu. He maintainshis control over both refugee camps and cities with awall of fire and steel. Every tool of his control is paid forby the United States, and guided by US o~advisors.�Because of these differences, the PRG has been ableto thrive in political struggles as well as military oper-ations. Under the conditions of the Paris agreements,they could rally the majority of Vietnamese to supportthem in an election. And while they have little to gainby fighting militarily against ThieuTs troops, they arefully prepared to defend the areas they controlled onJanuary 27.Ceasing the Fire:/domination. The US government, defeated politica yand militarily, has been forced to admit that Vietnam isindependent and a single country.WHAT DOES THE AGREEMENT SAY?The actual oAgreement on Ending the War andRestoring Peace in VietnamT is long, but its mostimportant points provide for:* The United States will respect the independence,unity and territorial integrity of Vietnam.An immediate cease-fire in place by all parties (theSaigon regime, headed by Thieu; the ProvisionalRevolutionary Government (PRG) which the US callsthe Vietcong; the Democratic Republic of Vietnam,or north Vietnam; the US)Release of prisoners of war and political prisoners onall sides.Freedom of movement and residence for all civiliansin all areas of Vietnam.Total withdrawal of American military personnelfrom VietnamThe step-by-step reunification of north and southVietnam, including elections.Most news from Vietnam is that the communists areviolating this agreement. But the key to what is reallyhappening in Vietnam is not in the papers. It lies inanswering the question, oWhich side has the greatestneed to violate the agreement?�T*b Will it Work� HsNORTH VIETNAM: The primary interest of the PRGand the north Vietnamese now is to get on with healingand reunifying the country. As Pham Van Dong, primeminister of north Vietnam, recently said:oThe political situation in~the south is such thatone must have a government that reflects therealities. You must realize that war in the southhas meant that an entire generation has known noother way of life. There has been terrible sufferingin every family. No one has been spared. Familiesare divided, father on one side, son on the other.Those are the realities. One must now try toabolish those divisions and not by imposing ourwill. ThatTs why national reconciliation is para-mount.TThe North Vietnamese do not want to take over theSaigon government or the rest of south Vietnam. Theywant all political prisoners to be released, the refugees toreturn to their home land, elections to be held freely andopenly, an end to hostilities, and the country to bereunified.Since Thieu knows he does not have the support ofthe people to be free/y elected, his regime will surviveonly if it can rely on the United States to reinterveneand back up his troops with air power. As long as he canbuy time and keep up a shooting war (including aninvasion of Cambodia), the political provisions of thepeace agreement will have to wait.VIOLATIONSCEASE-FIRE. With the encouragement that Nixon hasgiven him, including a visit to San Clemente and a worldtour as the US man in Vietnam, Thieu is exploiting thesituation for all itTs worth. He has bragged that his forceshave retaken over one-fifth of the villages in Vietnamsince the cease-fire was signed January 27. He admits to12,000 attacks into PRG areas since then, includingeight division-sized operations inside of two months.And instead of allowing freedom of movement, theseattacks have forced between 200,000 and 300,000 morepeople to become refugees. This is in a country of only18 million people (New York Times 1/18/73)POLITICAL PRISONERS. There are over 1000 pri-sons operated by ThieuTs government, many built by UScompanies. Buddhists in Vietnam estimate that there areabout 300,000 political prisoners in jail. According totwo Frenchmen released by Thieu in January, and letterssmuggled out of the country, most of these prisonershave been reclassified as ocommon criminalsT This givesThieu the option of keeping them in prison indefinitely.That is how Thieu can announce that there arenTt anypolitical prisoners that havenTt been released, but only aofew communists.�TFREEDOM OF MOVEMENT AND RESIDENCE.Millions of people have been deliberately forced by USbombs and the Saigon regime into the big cities duringthe course of the war. This was done to undermine thePRGTs base of support in the countryside. Thieu haskept the city refugees under his control through enor-mous graft and corruption, by trading rice for votes.These refugees still supportive of the PRG " nowwant to return home to rebuild their destroyed villagesand farm their land. However, the continuation of thehostilities and some of ThieuTs deliberate efforts to keepthem in city refugee camps has kept them from return-ing to the countryside.ELECTIONS: No elections have been scheduled, eventhough the peace agreement says they must be. Electionswill not take place until all political prisoners have beenreleased and the refugees can return to their homes inthe countryside.FUTURE US PLANSNixon had to get out of Vietnam now in order to Stayin Asia for the long run. Now that the uniformedcombat troops are out, and the POWTs are home, Nixonmakes it look like the US is getting out. These moves aredesigned to fool the American people and convince usthat the government has good intentions.But heTs only trading old POWTs for new ones.Civilians with military skills are being sent by thethousands to replace returning troops. The new 1974budget allocates $1 billion for support of US forcesremaining in Southeast Asia, and $2 billion for militaryaid to South Vietnam and Laos. Add in another $2billion for Thailand and Marcos in the Philippines. Addin the Seventh Fleet, the thousands of troops stationedthroughout Asia, and the huge air force which is combatready for renewed intervention.The recent invasion of Cambodia by South Vietnammay have been performed by Vietnamese soldiers, but itwas done with American equipment and backup by theUS Air Force. The US intends to stay in the rest of Asiaas long as possible and even threatens to reintervene inVietnam. But any reintervention would only delay theinevitable and won't be enough to maintain the Thieuregime as the osole legitimate government of SouthVietnam.�SOUTH VIETNAMNHA, INC. now accepting applications for:HELICOPTER PILOTS FIXED-WING PILOTSPossible Feb. 10th departure. 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Make Yourcontinued from page |1984Heidelberg reports that as of mid-March, he knew of atleast ten such groups, both black and white, which wereorganizing to fight back in the courtroom and thecasernes (barracks) of the US Army Europe.Deportations of Gl movement activists began inmid-January, when five Gls were given 24 hours noticethey were being shipped back to Fort Dix, New Jersey.Four were active with the underground GI paper,oFighT bAck.� The other had worked with oFTA WithPride� out of Wiesbaden. These five were supposedly thefirst of 40 brothers scheduled for deportation for whatthe military called ~conduct of possible discredit orembarrassment to the US.�TFinally, heat was applied to German and Americancivilian allies of the Gl movement. German police andMPs were instructed by base commanders to keep peoplefrom distributing Gl appers at the entrance to bases. AtPatton Barracks in Heidelberg, Dr. Regina Fisher (chesschampion Bobby FisherTs mother) was forced into anMP station when she was seen giving out copies ofleaflets and six different underground GI papers. A Glactive in the movement told a reporter for LiberationNews Service, ~~WeTre often asked how we get our papersdistributed. ItTs no real problem, but if we get somemore Mrs. Fishers, we'll triple our press runs.�The repression meant to smother the Gl movementhas only added fuel to fire. There are now more Glorganizations, more GI papers, and more peopee readingthem than before the repressive regs were implemented.So if want to get involved, check out the people below:LaywerTs Military Defense Committee, 69 Heidelberg 1,Marzgasse 7; FighT bAck, D69 Heidelberg, Marstallstr.11A; FTA With Pride, Postfach 9687, D6202, WiesbadenBeibrich; The Word, c/o Reichart, D79 Ulm,Blumenscheinweg 14; RITA ACT, D69 Heidelberg,Marstallstr. 11A; Forward, Postfach 163, 1 Berlin 45.Jeff AllisonNORFOLK, VIRGINIA (December) " A military judgefound Jeff Allison guilty of arson, sabotage, andhazarding a vessel in the fire aboard the USS Forrestallast July 10. Jeff was sentenced to serve five years in theNorfolk Naval Prison, and handed a BCD.The fire Jeff was charged with setting was the biggestact of sabotage in Naval history, causing between $7 and$12 million dollars damage to the carrierTs vitalequipment.The NavyTs case rested on the testimony of an NISagent who claims Jeff confessed to him. Jeff denied heever made that statement. The NavyTs only otheroevidence� was that Jeff possibly had access to the areawhere the fire started. Although there were no witnessesthat saw Jeff do anything related to the fire, the Navystill rammed through a guilty verdict.The general opinion of the enlisted men and womenin the Norfolk area was that Jeff was the NavyTsscapegoat. Their ships suffer fires, accidents, andmalfunctions all the time. If they couldnTt find anenlisted men to blame it on, theyTd have to blamethemsevles.wn HistoryNeo-Nazi'sWASHINGTON (February) According to JackAndersonTs column of February 6 in the San FranciscoChronicle, Armed Forces Radio Network has given airtime to two men who advocate the rule of the world bywhite, anglo-saxon, Christian men. The two men areGerald L. K. Smith, who specializes in speaking aboutthe inferiority of Jews and Black people, and RudolphSteiner. SteinerTs broadcast advocated resettling ~~at leastone-half of the Negro population in the countries thatthey came from,� and deporting criminals to laborcamps in the Pacific Islands. ItTs these kind of low levellies which encourage race fighting. Next time you readof an enlisted man being charged with orioting� oroinciting to riotT, just remember you heard it first overAFRN, Brass Radio Network. [Source: San FranciscoChronicle]ChenowethSAN FRANCISCO (April) " Patrick Chenoweth isanother scapegoat whoTs taking the rap for the sabotagethatTs spreading through the fleet. Pat, whoTs 21 yearsold and from Puyallup, Washington, has been in the brigat Treasure Island since August 1972. HeTs charged withwillful destruction of government property and sabotagein time of war. They say he destroyed the mainreduction gears of the USS Ranger, causing $800,000damage and delaying the shipTs return to Vietnam for 3/2months.For the last four months, the Navy has been trying tomove the trial to the Philippines, where the USS Rangeris now berthed. They say itTs cheaper that way, sincethey donTt have to fly witnesses back to the states. Yetthere are as many members of the defense committee tobe flown to the Philippines, as there are witnesses to beflown back to San Francisco.Pat has also stated in legal affidavits that heTs morethan ready to wait until the ship return to San Franciscoin June. In spite of PatTs affidavit, the court martialjudge ruled to move the trial to the Philippines, theCourt of Military Appeals upheld the ruling, and theFederal District Court went along, too.The Philippines is the perfect place for another Navysnow job. It is thousands of miles from PatTs defensecommittee and his many supporters " literally thou-sands who have signed petitions, sent letters of protest,and filled both the military and federal court rooms.Also, PatTs civilian lawyer, Eric Seitz, is not exactlywelcome in the Philippines. When President Marcosdeclared -martial law there in October 1972, four ofEricTs co-workers were picked up and thrown indetention camps by Philippine police. TheyTd like to dothe same to Eric because he helped defend the Glmovement at Subic Bay and Clark. Eric would bearrested by the Philippine police the moment he set footin the Philippines.As if that werenTt enough, Marcos has also banned theUS press and wire services. So thereTs little chance ofnews of PatTs case reaching people here in the States.Congressman Ron Dellums and the Berkeley CityCouncil have registered official protests of the transfer.Jane Fonda appeared to host a benefit for Pat whichattracted over a thousand people and raised nearly$2000. If youTd like to join the ranks of his supporters,you can contact his Defense Committee at 3325Kempton Avenue, Oakland, CA 94611. You can alsowrite Pat at this address: Pat Chenoweth, CorrectionalFacility, Treasure Island Naval Station, SF, CA. | Source:Camp News and Chenoweth Defense Committee |The Bulkhead is currently experiencing some major financialproblems. Funding has decreased over the last few months.These financial problems, compounded by shortage of staff,have forced the Bulkhead to produce the smallest issue ever.If half the people that subscribe could send a one dollardonation, we would have enough money to print twoadditional issues twice this big. In the past, it has been yourdonations that have helped keep the Bulkhead going. Andwe would like to thank you for that. It has always beenour policy to distribute our paper free. We will continuethis policy. This means we rely on your donations to keepus going. So send us bread..And support the GI movement.Lee KingOKINAWA (December 5, 1972) " Lee King is a Spec5in the US Army with six years service and an absolutelyclean record. He is a black man who is married to aKorean woman, and is stationed on Okinawa. For fiveyears he put up silently with things like hearing hiswarrant officer call him ~colored boyT, and tell himabout the slaves his grandfather owned. He put up withwarrant officers putting white soliders to work in theshade and black soldiers to work in the sun, all becauseoyou Nigras donTt get sunburned.�� When Lee King beganto speak out against this racism, the military attackedhim, and created a kangaroo trial protested by Gls of allcolors, as well as Okinawans.One night in June, LeeTs 20 month old son fell out ofbed and hit his head on the concrete floor. Mrs. Kingcalled Lee, called for an ambulance, and rushed the babyto the hospital where he died four days later. Eventhough Lee wasnTt even home at the time, even thoughtheir son was never abused by either parent, Lee wascharged with murder. In order to charge Lee, themilitary had to get a doctor to testify that a bruise froma spanking could have caused death, and they had toscare one of LeeTs friends into signing a false statementwhich implicated Lee in his sonTs death.The JAG office investigators said to drop charges. Butthe CID, pushed by General Maples. wanted a convictionso bad that they went ahead anyway. Gls united behindLeeTs case. A private radio station on Okinawa, JORO,sponsored a show about the case and racism in themilitary. Petitions were circulated, and letters mailed upthe chain of command. A benefit was organized, and500 people attended. Gen. Maples took the slogan ~FreeLee King� so seriously that he detailed 150 extra MPs tothe stockade on the night of the benefit to prevent a jailbreak.After 90 days of confinement, and much organizingby supporters, Lee King was found not guilty after onlynine minutes of deliberation. As oOmega Press� put it:oGen. Maples lost this one, just like he can lose allothers. Oppressed Gls just need to stand together andpetty tyrants will be immobilized.� [Source: OmegaPress and Camp News|

GermanyJanuary 31, 1973Dear D. & Fellow Family Associates,_ | still donTt believe it, but maybe all of the POW'Tswill be freed, we will get the hell out, and Vietnam canfinally get the peace they deserve instead of beingriddled with war. They voted by free election for acommunist government; so the fact that they will soonbe red is not business of ours. So many lives and limbswere lost there. Thank goodness we are finally gettingout.Things are shitty to the max here in Germany. ItTsjust Vietnam without the war. The lifers are down onsmoking dope. They have been in my room at /east tentimes looking for dope. On three occasions they foundhash there ... for which | am still waiting on mycourt-martial. My C.O. and Ist pig (especially the C.O.)are hard-core alcoholics who are fucking with everybody(not just the heads).The Army in Germany is just as politically oriented asthe Army in Vietnam. Black and white clash instead ofmaking grey. Most Germans hate Gls (especially blackGls). They want us to go, but donTt send us because theyneed us to support their country. People are also stealingfrom Finance, burning down government installations(such as PXs, barber shops, commissaries, etc.), usingbombs, frag grenades, etc..../ would send a small donation, but lawyer expensesare killing me. Continue to help stop all wars.2GermanyThailandFebruary 21, 1973The Brothers & Sisters of the Bulkhead,Well, | am glad to hear from you, | received yourpackage yesterday. | had to hold one back for myself,Really now, | donTt have one left.Boy, this place is fucked up. Especially SecurityPolice Squadron. These lifers are pen happy. They'llwrite you up if you look cross-eyed. ITve been written up17 times for different things since ITve been here.Also, Golden Flow [forced urinalysis] ... guys herehave been called in between three and twenty times ayear. One Brother was called fourteen times in onemonth. One test came back positive, but not from illegaldrugs.The only people who get what they want are theofficers, the ones who fly the war machines.... Thebarracks ~~The Chicken Coops�T framed screens and sheetmetal roofs. Maybe we could give a couple to theMarines at Nam Phong. Some of the guys here went toNam Phong for the Bob Hope show. They said it is reallyfucked up. Peace.R.C.Thailand[EditorTs Note: we send out free packages of pamphlets,magazines and newspapers. If you want a sample pack-age, just send us a note asking for one. /LETTERSKorea5 February 1973The Year of the OxDear S.Let me clear up a few thoughts to you so you can seewhere American troops are at in this spineless relation-ship with Park Chung Hee and the Korean people.The martial law has ended. US forces took a very lowprofile, even striking flags and having guards hide duringthe day so as not to appear in support of the fiasco. Itwas pitiful to drive through Seoul and pass checkpointsarmed with cal 50Ts and vicious looking Korean soldiers.The Seoul University was closed and surrounded by thesame entourage of democratic enforcement.The press here is censored to the point of printing adisclaimer, ~~All pages censored,TT on many of the issuesafter the law decree. Once the decree was lifted, the shitwas not so blatant but freedom here for the masses ofstruggling Koreans is a headlong slam, oup against thebulkhead.�TMore on that later. Oh, one more thing. During theRed Cross talks with North and South Korea, the Ameri-cans hide, including the MP guards on the Joint SecurityArea. Also, at the Armistice Commission meetings heldmonthly between north and south, the Koreans are nowblasting American involvement rather than the southKoreans.Enclosed is a picture of a KATUSA soldier (KoreanAugmentation to the US Army) " Koreans who servewith the US Army rather than with the ROK [ Republicof Korea] army. Anyway, the US is extremely racistabout its dealings with these soldiers. Depicted here isthe use of a South Korean citizen, the Katusa, beingforced to pose as a North Korean aggressor during atraining exercise. The list only begins here of the shittystuff these guys go through. Yet is is better than being inthe ROK army so they put up with it. It is also wellknown that most KATUSAs come from middle classfamilies and. a little money changes hands somewherealong the line to get them into the program with theAmerican Forces.An interesting thing happened this weekend whichmay be an indicator of things to come here in Korea inthe realm of racism. 65 blacks were arrested at CampHowze, the home of the Third Brigade headquarter, forvoicing their grievances on the local heli-pad. So far nopunishment has been meted out. Apparently they wereordered to disperse three times, the common warning,then all handcuffed and trucked off, Each one is beinginterviewed as to his reasons for being out there, The CGhere, MG Jeffery G. Smith has said that if they are legit,he will take care of them. But otherwise they will bepunished ocommensurate with their involvement in thedemonstration.TT Nothing has been made public. ...The pursuit of truth is accountable to no one....CharleyRepublic of KoreaEa teenWi*OpenWANFamerT? vagMon & Tue 7:30-10Sun 2-5epowelyjeurisuq 6orrADDRESS / UNTIErSsI-S$98BRANCH OF SERVIC!3tTeD(50) (100).{ ] 1! am a captive of the US Armed Forces and want to get this free.{ ] | will distribute Bulkheads on base. Send me (5) (10) (25){ ] I'm a civilian who's enclosing $5 for 12 issues (donations arewelcome, folks).HereTs the name and address of a friend in the service who ought tobe getting this paper:THE BULKHEAD6th FleetViarch 19, 1973Friends,As you can see by my rank on the subscription | havebeen in the Navy for awhile (15 years). | have only readtwo issues of your paper, but | would like to read moreof them.Presently | am working in the Drug Education Pro-gram in the Navy and some of your articles could be ofbenefit to the program. Especially the one in the May 72issue on Heroin. The drug exemption program haschanged a lot since May 72, even though it has someproblems, senior officers that wonTt accept it. As for ussenior enlisted people, there are STILL some of us whoreally think we believe in what we're doing.Peace through love...|. F.Sixth FleetVcamp Swampy /March 7, 1973Dear Bulkhead,Just picked up a copy of your paper at the United WeStand Bookshop here in Jacksonville, North Carolina. |must say, by far, that you put out one of the best papers/ have ever read in the military regime, | donTt have totell you what Camp Swampy is like. ItTs all been said athousand times over. Enclosed find $2.00 for the bookoTurning the Regs Around.� Keep up the fantasticwork!/ =Lage ,¥Camp Lejeune, N.C./EditorTs Note: oTurning The Regs Around� is a soon-to-be-released book on GI rights, and how to use them asa tool for organizing. For copies, send requests to BayArea Military Law Panel, 558 Capp Street,cisco, CA /San Fran-MILITARY NUMBERCOUNTRY YOU'RE STATIONED INETS DATI98 Chenery Street San Francisco, California 94131

A Gis POINT OF VIEWVIET NAMGEASE FIREArticle 4: The United States will not continue itsmilitary involvement or intervene in the internal affairsof South Vietnam.This critical part of the Paris cease-fire agreementsignifies an end to the killing and dying for Americanservicemen in the land, sea, and air that is Vietnam. Nosegment of American. society feels more relief and joythan the enlisted men and women of the armed forces.Now for the thousands of us in the service who haveworked toward this end and for those who have sup-ported our fight, comes a time for examination anddecision.One essential question must be: what is to be thepurpose and the future of the millions of Americans whostill wear the uniform of this countryTs armed services?To answer this we must examine the policies and thepower held by the military at the beginning of thispost-Vietnam era. At the same time we must look at theroots and the history of the Gl movement. We mustdecide whether the end of US involvement in SoutheastAsia eliminates the reasons or legitimacy of our struggle.Historically the end of a war has brought with itdemobilization for the vast majority of those in uniform.This is not to be the case for the almost one million Glspresently stationed on foreign soil or for the 1% milliongarrisoned in the US.T Our brothers stationed in thePhilippines are already seeing parallels between thatcountry and the Vietnam of the early sixties. One majordifference, though, is our ability to recognize the natureof AmericaTs role in such a situation. It is because of thisunderstanding that we cannot wait for another TNam toemerge and engulf us. We must educate ourselves andothers and organize in an effort to avert such a pos-sibility.GI resistance to the Vietnam war has not been anisolated issue ... it has not been built in a vacuum. Wefight on two fronts. We have resisted and must continueto resist the misuse of the military machine for wars likeVietnam, riot control, or to enforce US policy abrodd.And second, perhaps even more basic, is the struggle forfundamental human rights. We have come to understandthe dehumanizing and oppressive conditions of themilitary have a purpose. They are designed to cut us offtrom our roots and to remodel us into instruments to bemanipulated by the brass. They exist to divide us fromthe civilian world and from each other. We refuse toaccept this situation and are determined to fight againstall aspect t trom the institutional racism of thejuities of military justice.i ta}The brass expects to be able to use this period toreshape and rebuild the military. With the end of thedraft and the concept of the new volunteer services, theyare trying to eradicate the last vestige of the citizensoldier and to replace it with the concept of theprofessional. With the raw material of men, and increa-singly women, forced into the military by unemploy-ment, poverty, and the slick PR work of recruiters, thegenerals and politicians hope to produce soldiers whoseonly loyalties are to their units and superior officers.They wish to create American servicerhen who can betrusted to carry out any mission, anywhere in the nationor the world, without thought as to its political or moralsignificance. We stand between them and that goal. It isour refusal to be remodeled into their image that willdefeat them.We occupy a position in this society that allows us tosee around the rhetoric of military and governmentpolicy. We are going to continue to speak out andorganize around all issues that contribute to a more justAmerica.The ceasefire is in part our victory. We must see it asevidence of the power we have when we work in unityand apply this strength to the problems that still licbefore us.by a GI at Ft. Polk, Louisiana