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That can easily happen when they pound the fillet too thin or fry it too long. Evil

It's been at least eight months since I've eaten at the Robin Hood Tavern in The Avenue Shopping Plaza. I have nothing against the Robin Hood, it's just there are so many options for dining in Pattaya that a restaurant has to be special in some way for me to eat there regularly. The menu at the Robin Hood is understandably focused on U.K. pub food, of which I've grown a bit weary. Last night a friend who'd never tried the RH wanted to give it a whirl and I went along. He had the cottage pie at 290 baht ... while I had the Hunter's Chicken for 260 baht. Neither of us had any complaints, but we both felt the food was a bit overpriced for what you get. There's enormous demand for U.K. food in Pattaya and dozens of pubs and restaurants vie to fill that demand. While the RH is physically a more comfortable restaurant (good A/C, spacious, well-lit) than most of its competitors, the food itself doesn't stand out. I had wanted the daily special, chicken tikka masala with naan and poppadom at 179 baht, but it was already finished at 7.00 p.m. When a special is no longer available, I do think they should take it off the board outside the restaurant. My friend liked his classic British comfort food. The taste was fine and the portion large, but he felt the price was high compared to similar portions of cottage pie at other restaurants. Hunter's Chicken is a ubiquitous dish that comes in many variations depending on the country where it's served. The RH's version was British style, which is very different from Chicken Chasseur (Poulet Sauté Chasseur) or Chicken Cacciatore ((Pollo alla Cacciatora). ] The British version usually consists of a chicken breast wrapped in a couple of rashers of bacon, then topped with BBQ sauce and cheese and baked. It's actually closer to a U.S. southern regional dish called smothered chicken (the BBQ sauce and bacon are the clues) than the French or Italian hunter-style braised chicken dishes. At the RH, the fillet of chicken breast had been pounded thin, breaded and pan-fried. It was topped with BBQ sauce (homemade, according to the menu), mozzarella cheese, two slices of streaky bacon fried crisp and some shreds of cheddar for color more than flavor. It came with a tiny portion coleslaw, which was watery but good, a dish of ketchup and shoestring fries. The fillet had been nicely fried, although perhaps it had been pounded a bit too thin as the meat was somewhat dry. The BBQ was properly an accent and didn't overwhelm the dish. I could taste the chicken, bacon and mozzarella, not just BBQ sauce. Shoestring fries are a favorite of mine and the RH's version was done well. The super-thin slices of potato require split-second timing in the fryer; otherwise, they lose all flavor and only the crispiness remains. Bottom line: The RH-style Hunter's Chicken gets a . although it didn't make my taste buds dance. The shoestring fries are as big an attraction as the dish itself. I can well imagine having it again, but I won't be rushing back. Evil

I also agree it's a matter of luck. I forgot the exact figures, but Immigration Control at Swampy can only handle a certain number of arriving passengers in an hour. If less than the maximum arrive within an hour, the queue will move quickly and maybe there won't even be a queue. But if more than the maximum suddenly descent on the control booths due to the arrival of delayed flights on top of the normal load, the queue can get lengthy. Evil There's only one Premium Lane designated as such, but there is a priority lane in the East Immigration area where they honored my pass. I don't know if that is the regular routine, or only a fallback for when there is a serious bottleneck, Evil

Huge queues at Swampy Immigration at 12.45 a.m. on Dec. 5. Very chaotic, people were flooding the area outside the "snake" and were massed all the way out of the Immo area into the terminal walkway. I'm really glad I had a Premium Lane pass; otherwise, I'm sure it would have taken several hours to clear. It was bad enough with Premium access. One area was so jammed I didn't even try to get to the Premium Lane, I went straight to the second area. Only four people in the Premium Lane, but the Immo officer took five minutes with each, which meant a 20-minute wait. I wondered if they had tightened routines for everyone, but he cleared me in under a minute. The plane landed at 12.30 a.m. and I wasn't in my pre-booked ride until 1.30 a.m. It usually goes a lot faster. I don't know if it was in any way related to Dec. 5th being a Thai holiday; maybe a shortage of staff. Or it could just be "rush hour syndrome," a number of flights unexpectedly arriving around the same time. I'd guesstimate that 90% of the people in the arrival queue were Asian, many following flags. Evil

Yup, I haven't eaten there since that god-awful Christmas dinner last year. That dinner almost made me envious of Gabenezer and his bowl of instant ramen. Evil

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Three and a half million spectators are expected for the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade that's underway right now. The temperature is only a few degrees above zero, but people have been standing for hours waiting for the parade to start. It's a bit disturbing to see pics of heavily armed cops guarding the parade. Sign of the times; this would have been unthinkable 20-30 years ago. A big Thanksgiving Day "thanks" to all U.S. military ... and I really hope they get the dinner they are dreaming about! Evil

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A brief update on the Spaghetti Bistro (post #157). It's expanded its operation! I hope the reason is business picking up. Pizza has also been added to the menu. What had been a small bar next door has become SB's kitchen. The former open kitchen area has been replaced with bar counters and stools. They have added a rather garish sign to the roof as well. The other night I had spaghetti with blue cheese and bacon for 240 baht. That's not an inexpensive bowl of pasta, but there was a lot of blue cheese in the dish and it's not cheap in Thailand. In any case, it was very good. Evil

I have positive and negative observations about Volare. I'll mention the positive first. The Volare is an inviting and attractive restaurant in which to have a meal. The staff is friendly and attentive. The menu is extensive and includes some Italian dishes not frequently seen in Pattaya. It also features some Thai standards and international dishes like hamburgers. Prices for the Italian dishes (salads, appetizers, pasta, pizza, etc) are reasonable for what you get. Some of the non-Italian meat dishes, like steak and lamb chops, get into the 600- to 800-baht range, but I don't go to an Italian restaurant for such dishes. It's currently open 24/7 and offers an English breakfast at 130 baht, but again, Volare wouldn't be a natural choice for me for any sort of breakfast. Of the three dishes I have had at Volare, the first suffered from a miss in the kitchen, while the other two were excellent. On my first post-renovation visit, I ordered tortellini pomodoro (tortellini in a tomato sauce). Tortellini is a filled, ring-shaped pasta also called navel, i.e. belly-button, pasta thanks to its appearance and the legendary story of its origin. According to popular tradition, tortellini was the result of an Italian innkeeper peeping through a keyhole at a female guest. He only caught a glimpse of her navel, but it turned him on so much that instead of whacking off, he ran to the kitchen and invented tortellini. The filling most often used in tortellini is finely ground pork that's a bit bland by intention to highlight the broth or sauce with which it's served. The tomato-and-mince-meat sauce that covered the tortellini was fresh and vibrant, no complaints on my part. However, a couple of the pieces of tortellini were hard and dry on the outside. That's a sign they had been cooked in advance but hadn't been covered properly, so that they dried on top. It was a silly mistake, as tortellini only takes about 10 minutes to cook in boiling water. it certainly detracted from the meal, but not enough to deter me from returning for a second try. If all the pieces of tortellini had been freshly cooked, it would have been a great meal. I ordered the paccheri al pomodoro, basilico e ricotta (paccheri with tomato, basil and ricotta cheese) on my second visit. Paccheri is a very large tubular pasta, sort of what macaroni would look like if it could suffer from giantism. Paccheri occupies a special place in Italian culinary history. In a groundbreaking cookbook from 1839, a recipe for paccheri al pomodoro is one of the first published Italian recipes to call for a tomato sauce on pasta. Today we consider tomato-based sauces to be synonymous with Italian cuisine, but they are actually a relatively recent addition, dating back to the late 1700s and early 1800s. The tomato was introduced to Italy in the mid-1500s from Mexico via Spain. However, it took another 250 years for the tomato to catch on as a widely used ingredient in Italian kitchens. Paccheri dishes aren't often encountered outside Italy, so I was eager to try Volare's version. This time, the dish didn't let me down. Both the sauce and ricotta cheese were excellent and the collapsed tubes of paccheri supported the flavors well. This time, everything clicked in terms of flavor and seasoning. Good job, Volare! Every main dish at Volare comes with three pieces of nondescript commercial white bread and a tiny bowl of parmesan cheese. The bread is nice touch as it can be used to sop up the extra sauce, but I wish Volare had used better bread.There's also a pepper mill on each table. That night I decided to try one of Volare's pizzas. I chose prosciutto (dry-cured ham) as the topping. It's not a traditional pizza topping in Italy, nor is it customary in the U.S., but I love prosciutto and thought it would taste great on pizza. I was right. The pizza was 13 inches (33 centimeters) in diameter, which would put it between medium and large on the U.S. size scale. It had a thin Neopolitan crust and I would have preferred a bit more char on the bottom of the crust, but that may be a NYC thing. The sauce and cheese hadn't been laid too thickly so the taste of the prosciutto was overwhelmed. It was a good pizza and I wouldn't hesitate to order pizza again from Volare. And now it's time to mention something less favorable. The 10% service charge and the 7% VAT were tacked onto the prices shown on the menu. The paccheri (210 baht), Coke Zero (95 baht) and takeaway pizza (285 baht) added up to 590 baht. However, when I called chek bin, the total price I had to pay was 690 baht because the menu prices weren't net. I couldn't see it specified anywhere on the menu that the prices listed didn't include service and VAT, although it might be there somewhere in very small print. Naughty, naughty, Volare. The other less-than-favorable point is the cost of beverages at Volare. A Coke Zero is 111 baht with service charge and VAT. A SML is 140 baht on the menu, which would be 164 baht. Those are hefty prices. To summarize: Volare looks very fine after its makeover, the ambiance is good and the service friendly. The food is good and some dishes aren't on any other restaurant menu I've seen in Pattaya. However, a miss in execution pulls my overall opinion down, as does the failure to include service and VAT in the menu prices. Bottom line: I'll probably go back, but I'm not in a hurry. Pizza for takeaway might get more frequent business. Evil

Volare, a popular Italian restaurant, reopened at the beginning of November after a two-month closure for a major overhaul. It now features an enclosed bar and a totally redone outside dining area. It's located at the corner of Soi Bukhao and Soi 15, directly east of The Avenue Shopping Plaza and about 200 hundred meters south of LK Metro. Visually, the results are pretty impressive. And this is a pic of the bar from Volare's Facebook page: A fish tank has been built into the floor leading into the bar. The mural on one of the walls is eye-catching. A detailed view: The two nights I ate at Volare this week, it had quite a few customers; about 25 on the first night and 15 on the second. The first night I ate between 9.30 p.m. and 10.00 p.m. and the second between 23.30 p.m. and midnight. I was a bit surprised that so many were dining so late. The customers were a mix of plain vanilla farang with TG companions or male farang in groups as well as Russian and Asian tourists. That bodes well for Volare. To succeed in Pattaya's crowded restaurant segment, a restaurant has to attract customers of different nationalities. A Holiday Inn Express is due to open nearby in 2018 and it should provide Volare with a stream of potential customers. The new trendy but casual decor should help. The brick pizza oven has been rebuilt at one end of the restaurant. I'm running into Internet hassles again, so I'll save the food reviews for the second installment. Here's a teaser: Tortellini pomodoro - Paccheri al pomodoro, basilico e ricotta - Pizza with prosciutto ham for takeaway - Evil

Dave's Cantina now ranks as #23 out of 901 restaurants on TripAdvisor's popularity index for Pattaya. That's quite an accomplishment for a small Mexico-focused restaurant in a location that's a bit out-of-the-way and has only been open eight months. Of course, it's a popularity index and not a quality index, so there can be some odd results. The highest I've seen Dave's Cantina on the list is #19. Dave's also does well on the five-bubble quality index with a top score of five, meaning excellent. So to Dave, a big and Well done, Dave! Evil

The hours that Taco Taco is open have shifted a couple of times, but here's what its FB page now says: 3 p.m. to midnight. Evil

Taco Taco Tex Mex is a food stall that sells tacos, burritos and margaritas in the Soi Bukhao Night Market (see map below). As you face the Night Market on Soi Bukhao, Taco Taco is in the front row of stalls, second from the left. It has a small folding table and a few plastic stools in front for anyone who wants to eat on site, but most of the business is takeaway. Your choice is limited to different types of tacos and burritos, all cooked to order. It's basically homestyle Tex Mex done by a cook who knows what she's doing in terms of flavor. There are plenty of hot sauces available to add as much heat as you want. She makes everything with just a little bit of bite. Taco Taco has four types of burritos: bean, pork, chicken and beef. They range in price from 80 baht for a bean burrito to 105 baht for the beef burrito in the pic below. The Taco Taco burritos are the large, U.S. variety, stuffed with a meat, potato and cheese mixture. I don't want to get too specific about the burrito style (Mission, California, San Diego, etc.) as that would require a long and complicated discussion. Suffice it to say the burritos I had from Taco Taco tasted great and were quite filling. The tacos can be ordered with either soft wheat tortillas or hard-shell corn tortillas and filled with pork, chicken or beef mixtures. They are based on small tortillas, three or four inches in diameter. That's the size of the original tacos sold as street food both in Mexico and in Mexican neighborhoods in the U.S. The larger U-shaped hard-shell pre-fried corn tortillas were invented in the 1940s by Mexican restauranteurs in the U.S. to speed up preparation in commercial kitchens. The hard-shell tacos were popularized in the 1950s mainly through the franchising operations of Glenn Bell, founder of taco bell. Shredded lettuce, sour cream and guacamole on hard-shell tacos is more Taco Bell than Mexican. The Taco Taco version is closer to the Mexican no-fuss type, but the yellow cheese topping makes it squarely Tex Mex. The tacos are small, so you'll need several if you are hungry. The food in the pics- a beef burrito, two soft pork tacos and two pork tortilla) cost 250 baht. Taco Taco Tex Mex is a great option for a takeaway meal or late-night snack. I simply love the beef burritos and could eat one every day. Of course, if you want a sit-down Mexican meal with more sophisticated flavors and a much wider choice of dishes, then visit Dave's Cantina. Evil For those not familiar with the Soi Bukhao area, here's a map. The Night Market is almost on a straight line due east of Central Festival Mall. The Night Market is a few hundred meters north of LK Metro. Jolly's and The Great American Sandwich Company are close to it.

Could you expect any different? Australia is a penile colony. You are referring to the 2002 liberty call of the carrier USS John Stennis and two smaller support ships. Australia's most infamous madame, Mary-Anne Kenworthy, went public with the story. It all played out before the change in the Uniform Code of Military Justice that made it illegal for military personnel to, uh, enlist the services of a prostitute. At the time, the story was treated as humorous in the U.S., a compliment on the virility of U.S. Navy sailors. In truth, the story was very exaggerated, a smart move by Kenworthy that generated free publicity for her Langtrees brothel that couldn't have been bought for millions of AUD or USD dollars. The biggest mistake was the number of sailors involved. The entire ship's complement of the USS John Stennis (ship's company plus air wing) was 5,500 and the combined ship's complement of the two smaller vessels was about 500 officers and men. However, only 30% of the ship's complement was allowed on shore at any one time (the figure is 20% for US Navy vessels at Thai ports), which means less than 2,000 per day hit the town for eight hours during the three-day call. Far from all of them made a beeline to the Langtrees brothel. It was probably a few hundred at most over the three days. Langtrees had 19 rooms and about 30 women working; it wasn't exactly a massive operation. Moreover, prices at Langtrees were high, more for a one-hour session than many enlisted men had in disposable income in a month. It's a common mistake in stories about U.S. Naval visits to confuse the ship's complement with the number that went ashore at any one time. I'll get back to this later regarding Cobra Gold, but right now I have to get ready for Halloween. Evil

I couldn't get a seat near the "entertainment section," but I did notice the music videos were played at a blessedly low volume. Evil

The Marquee Bar & Cafe is well-known for its 100-baht Sunday roast dinners. It had long been on my list of places to try; I just hadn't gotten around to it until yesterday. I believe 100 baht is the lowest price for a Sunday roast in central Pattaya. It's a popular bar located on the corner of Soi Bukhao and the subsoi that runs past the New Plaza bars to Second Road. I've included a map at the end of this review for anyone not familiar with the area, I ordered the Sunday dinner with roast beef and was pleasantly surprised by the meal I got considering the price. It was a good plate of food and definitely value for money. It certainly isn't the best or biggest Sunday roast you can get in Pattaya, but those dinners will cost you three to five times as much. If you have a big appetite, then an all-you-can-eat buffet is the way to go. But if you're happy with a modest portion, the Marquee's Sunday roast is an excellent option. The plate I got looked very much like the picture in the ad. Three slices of roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, four small roast potatoes and some boiled veggies (a small spoonful of garden peas, a piece of carrot, two broccoli spears, a piece of sweet corn and a slice of boiled cabbage. Amazingly, the veggies weren't overcooked. Since the plate came doused in gravy, I propped up the slices of meat with a roast potato so they would show up better in the photo. The beef was of the packaged and pre-cooked variety and had been sliced very thin, but that's to be expected when the meal costs 100 baht. The gravy had a good flavor and consistency, but it probably came from a package. I wish it had been served on the side, not poured on the plate. The Yorkshire pudding looks overdone in the pic, but that is actually misleading. Only an extremely thin top layer had been burned, the rest hadn't. A more serious fault was the interior: [ Here what I think happened: the Yorkshire pudding had been cooked properly from the beginning but had cooled and then been reheated, hence the overdone top surface and collapsed interior. Still, it wasn't too bad and I've had far worse in Pattaya. I also believe I paid for violating one of my own rules about Sunday roasts as well as buffets: get there as early as possible. I had dinner at the Marquee Bar around 7 p.m. If I had been there earlier- I think they start serving at noon- I'm sure the Yorkshire pudding would have been fine. I really appreciated the corn on the cob, even though it's not part of a traditional British Sunday roast. Nice touch! Bottom line: I didn't have high expectations when I sat down at the Marquee. I was doubtful that a small restaurant could put together a Sunday roast worth eating for 100 baht. I was wrong; the meal wasn't just edible, it was pretty good. Next time I'll go earlier and order the chicken. I'll also ask that the gravy be served on the side. The Marquee does a special on fish and chips as well. A couple of side notes. One of the serving girls began hamming for the camera, but I just smiled and didn't snap her picture. After a minute or two, a man seating close to my table asked me to take a picture of the girl. Why, I don't know. I've pixelated theor faces as I also don't know if they'd want the pic posted on a punter board. The Marquee's Sunday roast is quite popular. Almost all the tables were taken, but with one diner each. Across the street, Nida Food & Drink had a lot of customers as well. Evil The map:

That already happened on April 1. Evil

Yes, I'm sure they are open longer than 3.00 a.m. Evil

This was more of a snack for me than a meal, but the steak pie (from Tinnie's in Jomtien) I had at Le Pub on Soi Diamond was excellent. I've had Tinnie's pies before and there was really good steak flavor in the one I had at Le Pub. The pastry was excellent, too; rich and flaky. The cost was 150 baht. You can also have them with chips if that's your preference. It's a great bar snack! And don't forget the baps! They are quite filling. There are some sweetie pies in the bar as well, if that's more to your taste. Evil

The times, they are a-changin'. Go-go going as Chinese women fuel Thai tourism boom BANGKOK (Reuters) - For decades since the Vietnam war, the scantily clad dancers in the go-go bars of Bangkok’s Patpong red-light district have been the face of Thailand’s tourism industry. But last year for the first time, the country drew more women tourists than men as a surge in Chinese female visitors outweighed a longstanding distortion spurred by men drawn to the world’s “sex capital”. The shift is welcome news for Thai authorities, who have tried to promote the country’s shopping, beaches and temples and to minimize the importance of sex tourism, which thrived after Thailand became an R&R hotspot for U.S. troops in the 1960s and 1970s. Tourism ministry figures reviewed by Reuters showed 52 percent of more than 32 million visitors last year were women. That compared to 48 percent in 2015 and only 42 percent in 2012. No earlier official data were available, but research from as far back as the 1980s shows a ratio of about 60 percent male to 40 percent female visitors. “Not as many women visited Thailand because they thought we were a cheap destination with too much vice, but now more are coming, which means our image accommodates them,” Tourism Minister Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul told Reuters. Tourism accounts for around 12 percent of Southeast Asia’s second-biggest economy and is easily the fastest growing sector, particularly since a coup in 2014. Hoping to attract more female tourists, the state’s Tourism Authority of Thailand started a “Women’s Journey” campaign last year, with a website and mobile application offering discounts for hotels, spas, malls, and restaurants. But the biggest factor has been tourism from China, which has reshaped the industry around the world. The number of Chinese visitors rose from nearly 12 percent of Thailand’s visitors in 2012 to 27 percent last year. The number of Chinese women visiting Thailand nearly quadrupled over the same period to more than 5.3 million. “When Chinese men make a lot of money, they tend to take their wife, daughter, and mother to travel, making the ratio heavier on the female side,” said Virat Chatturaputpitak, vice president of the Association of Thai Travel Agents. Major Chinese travel website Tuniu reported that 62 percent of its customers last year were women, Chinese media reported. CHEAP, EASY AND CLOSE TO HOME “I chose to come to Thailand because it’s close by, there are many flights, it’s cheap to travel and easy to get a visa,” said Man Na Zhang, 24, at Bangkok’s Erawan Shrine, a favorite spot for Chinese tourists despite a deadly bombing in 2015. Chinese female visitors, who get a tourist visa on arrival, also cited a simple tax rebate procedure on duty free goods as another drawcard as they snap up items such as cosmetics, bottled bird’s nest soup, vitamins and supplements. Many stores in Bangkok’s shopping malls now accept Alipay, China’s giant online payment service. A Big C supermarket near the Erawan shrine buzzes with Chinese tourists who fill their trolleys with bulk packets Tom Yum Goong flavored instant noodles, crispy seaweed and dried squid snacks. Businesses in tourist towns have started printing menus in Chinese and getting workers to learn the language to cater to Chinese tourists, who last year made up more than those from Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa combined. China’s recent “Golden Week” holiday brought 70 percent more Chinese visitors than last year, the tourism ministry said. For nationalities that traditionally patronized Thailand’s sex industry, tourist numbers are still dominated by men - 68 percent of Japanese visitors, 58 percent of British and nearly 56 percent of American, Australian and German tourists. But even for those countries, the balance has shifted more towards female tourists. Although the sex industry is far from dead, local businesses complain fewer tourists were visiting areas such as Patpong and nearby Silom neighborhood. “There are evidently fewer tourists, especially in the low season, when sales can go from tens of thousands of baht a day to nothing,” said Somkid Sangwong, a manager of a restaurant in a Silom alley next to Patpong, surrounded by neon-lit signs for bars blasting loud music and offering raunchy live shows. Phadet Mesild, a board member of the Tourism Association of Koh Samui, another popular spot for sex tourism, told Reuters the decline in demand had forced many venues in the island to close down. Since 2014, Thailand’s military government has occasionally raided brothels, bars, and massage parlors in an effort to clean up the country’s image, but they have usually bounced back quickly. Reporting by Patpicha Tanakasempipat; Additional reporting by Suphanida Thakral and Panu Wongcha-um in BANGKOK, and SHANGHAI Newsroom; Editing by Matthew Tostevin and Lincoln Feast

From what I've been told- and I fully acknowledge it could wrong- is that the burden of proof is so high on the prosecution that military personnel are seldom charged. In the big scandal in 2012 in Colombia involving both Secret Service agents and active duty military, the Secret Service Agents were fired or forced to resign for violating the Secret Service's internal code of conduct, while the military guys were disciplined for violating curfew and throwing a wild party that caused damage to the hotel. There was no way a military prosecutor could prove the men had actually paid women for sexual services. I'm sure they were forced to resign at some stage, but they didn't face a court-martial on soliciting charges. That's why there's been criticism from feminists that the changes in the UCMJ are only cosmetic. The only way the UCMJ would have real teeth would be if it were made a crime to visit a "disreputable establishment" like a strip club or brothel. Their mere presence in such a place would be a crime. But that's full of holes, too, as the defendants could always plead they didn't know the establishment was "disreputable" and they saw no signs of prostitution. In the U.S., almost all the men arrested on prostitution-related charges have fallen for a police sting where they offered an undercover policewoman money for sex. It's the act of solicitation, not having sex, that is the crime. That's not possible outside the U.S. Evil

I don't know if there was a typo or mistake in the source I cited or perhaps the code has been updated since the Blair entry, but the prohibition against pandering and prostitution is now apparently in Article 134-97. However, the text was accurate. The UCMJ is revised every year and the online versions, even official ones, are not always up to date. This is what the Manual for Courts-Martial United States (2016 Edition) states: That's the most recent version from an official source (Joint Service Committee on Military Justice) I could find online. If anyone wants to read the whole section, it begins on page 442 of the PDF (936 pages in all!). Another source also indicated Article 138-34, yet another said 134-37. They might simply have been copying each others' mistake or using an outdated version of the UCMJ. It seems likely that someone transposed an "8" and a "4," as Article 134, the so-called General Article, would be the natural place to have a prohibition against prostitution. But whatever its placement in the USMJ, the text was correct. Evil

It became an offense for members of the U.S. military to use the services of a prostitute in 2005. Link "Before 2005, soliciting a prostitute was not formally addressed in the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Former president George W. Bush added a provision about solicitation of prostitutes in 2005, which can now be found in Article 138-34 of the UCMJ. This addition to the Uniform Code of Military Justice was enacted after the subject of military servicemen and prostitution was raised extensively in the media, calling attention to the fact that there was no formal punishment for hiring prostitutes. "Under the “Pandering and Prostitution” section, there are four provisions that must be true in order to be found guilty of patronizing a prostitute: The accused had sexual intercourse with another person (not the accused’s spouse) The accused compelled, induced, enticed, or procured such person to engage in an act of sexual intercourse in exchange for money or other compensation The act was wrongful The conduct of the accused was to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the armed forces or was of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces The maximum punishment for patronizing a prostitute is dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement for up to one year." I haven't found any reference that indicated a member of the U.S. military has actually been charged with and convicted of a prostitution-related offense, but they certainly could be. I do know that the commander of U.S. forces in Korea issued orders that it was no longer allowed for servicemen to pay for lady drinks or otherwise compensate women for their "time" even if sexual services weren't involved. This included playing pool! The notion that you'll find scads of U.S. Marines or sailors in Pattaya's bars during Cobra Gold is very dated and was never accurate. At one time, port calls by naval carrier groups were big events, but that effect ended in the 1980s. Evil