The US Army, its Finances and Operations; Sergeants in Charge.
Larger military facilities resembled small towns. They had chapels, PXs, barbershops, service clubs and even fast food restaurants. Camp H had a pizzeria run by a Korean gentleman that I will call Kim.
We noticed a spike in gastroenteritis cases in the tsunami of clap and tracked the outbreak to Kim’s pizzeria. A superficial walk-through of the kitchen revealed gross violations of ordinary health codes. The place was unscreened and full of flies. There were filthy dishes everywhere and the garbage can was open inside the building. There was no provision for handwashing for the cooks and no one knew where the restroom was located. I, and two other physicians went to Post’s commanding officer to ask him to shut that cesspool down. The Sgt. “chief of staff” refused to allow us to talk to the Colonel, no matter our rank or health implications. Our Medical Service Corps Officer (who may have been in the know) told us to try again the next day. By the next morning, our inspection revealed Kim’s pizzeria as a model of modern culinary sanitation. Copper pipes had been installed to deliver hot and cold water, the cooks and servers wore hairnets. There was a new refrigerator in the corner.
What?
We soon found the answer; it seemed that Kim had a nifty financial arrangement with the sergeants. He operated pizzerias on three large American posts, and these were at first blush, his main businesses. He also owned a brothel in the Cholon district of Saigon which was the clean, prosperous and militarily secure Chinese colony. He had enrolled all of the sergeants on the three posts in a scheme for them to refer enlisted men to spend their three-day in country R and R at his whorehouse and charge each of them $150. He would in turn kick back $75 (
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