re: #419 RayFerd

Military personnel utilizing prostitutes, why I never. When did this prostitution visiting by military personnel get started? I am no military historian but I think it has been going on FOREVER, as in since the world has had professions (as in prostitution being the oldest). Sure the guy(s) shouldn’t have acted out and caused an uproar, but come on. If it was their down time then they spent it the way they saw fit. If they would have been doing it when they were suppose to be on duty that would be another story. From the info I have so far they just got caught because the working girls stayed past the hotels strict “save face with the catholics” rule (the reason I see for that rule, you can do it but don’t be seen).

It’s not really about the soldiers, and if they had not been part of an advance team for the president the military would indeed have likely looked the other way. But they were part of the president’s advance team, and letting a prostitute into the same rooms they use to process intel puts the president at risk, as intelligence services and criminal gangs have often used prostitutes as spies or bug planters.