The "we've got to be seen doing something's" got this one.
Good luck enforcing this order. No alcohol, while on detachment...IN THE US! Unless you get a permission slip from your O-6 daddy, good luck enjoying your liberty. Oh, and tucked in at the end, no prostitutes, either. Fucking smart.
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/...ops-at-upcoming-nato-summit-behave/?hpt=hp_t3
General Order #1 was passed by LTG Honore during JTF Katrina. Except maybe around the HQ buildings I know it could not really be enforced.
(Side Note: I was in Jefferson Parish and had an Army Colonel come up and tell me that GO #1 was passed and asked if I knew what that meant. I said that GO #1 in Naval Aviation was "It's better to beg for forgivness than ask for permission". Needless to say, the discussion went downhill from there...)
However, the military now can hang it over your head that you've violate a direct (and lawful) order and can punish you if you have an incident and alocohol is somehow involved.
Do I think it silly, yes. But I've found that you spend 90% of your time dealing with 10% of the people. Rules are usually written for the Least Common Denominator and the rest of us get penalized because some folks just can't be trusted. That's who this is directed towards.
It reads like typical 'liberty policy' that we've all seen before. I've done a few port calls in the U.S. and other than the no alcohol rule, the liberty policy from the ship had many of the the same issue as far as clothing and illicit activies go.
I agree that the prostitutes is typical over-reaction from the HHQ.
