These kind of preditor crimes are so senseless, and are so TOTALLY preventable. Do parents these days have so much lower IQs than in the past? WTF happened to the buddy system??? When I was a kid parents just did not permit children to be outdoors alone, never!
When I was a kid were were always out, often alone. My mother had no idea what we were up to most of the time. I remember riding my bike, alone, to the public pool in the next town, about 8 miles one way, when I was 11.
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Even when I was in the military the Buddy System was drummed into our heads relentlessly... no one went anywhere off the ship alone... even to dump garbage cans on a military pier you went as as team of two, preferably four.. they wouldn't let you off the quarterdeck alone.
Sailors tend to get into trouble when they get ashore. They have a habit of getting drunk and disorderly and getting into fights. The docks tend to be the hangout for the lowlifes who like to pick fights with sailors. There could also be concerns about intelligence being slipped to the wrong people, so they send someone along to keep tabs on you.
Very few sailors drink to excess, even fewer get into fights. And the vast majority of attacks on service men in foreign lands occur when first arriving, when their pockets are full and are stupid enough to be wandering around alone... no one attacks a sailer on their way back to their ship, they're most likely broke.
Broke after spending all their money on the excess drinking they don't do. An American sailor died in a bar room brawl in Halifax a few months ago.
Then there was the Chilean War Scare back in the 1890s when a couple of American sailors were killed and close to 20 injured in a brawl between Chilean sailors and American sailors on shore leave.
Very few sailors drink to excess, even fewer get into fights. And the vast majority of attacks on service men in foreign lands occur when first arriving, when their pockets are full and are stupid enough to be wandering around alone... no one attacks a sailer on their way back to their ship, they're most likely broke. The typical assault on sailers
Very few sailors drink to excess, even fewer get into fights. And the vast majority of attacks on service men in foreign lands occur when first arriving, when their pockets are full and are stupid enough to be wandering around alone... no one attacks a sailer on their way back to their ship, they're most likely broke.
