We 'learned' all the bad lessons from Viet Nam and immediately purged any that were good...

Old Eagle reminds me that my Battalion commander in 1966 had three RTOs. One for the Bde net, one for the Bn net and the third carried a Packboard with a waterproof bag full of iced beer. If he saw you doing good work, you got a cold beer. Far better morale enhancer than a Coin...

My take on the no alcohol thing is, health issues aside, it is really designed to reduce the alcohol induced hassles on leaders. Maybe it needed to happen, I dunno. I do know I'm sure glad I missed it...