The difference in the make up of the the military during the Vietnam war and that post Carter was shocking. I served in the Navy from '69-75 or there about and then spent a very brief amount of time with the Army Reserve in '79 with Smokey Bear outfit. The change was nothing short of incredible. While the draft encouraged a lot of enlistments to be sure, once the grumbling was over you had folk who could get things done. The all volunteer crew was a whole different critter comprised of 'homeless hangers on' and a PC officer corps. Sorry if this affects anyone's sensibilities but it was the way things were at the time. Carter was responsible for this gutting of the services from what saw. The reserve unit I served in was a Paper Tiger, albeit politically correct. I actually got to see them in the field. It was not pretty, it was down right scary, they could have been taken out by a Brownie troupe.
The charge I believe is he was using counterfeit chips. One has to wonder how he was caught and how they knew he was passing them. There is so much to the story we do not know, he may have been set up for a fall do to his high up position and wanting to move a less experienced man in.
Where did he get the chips was it at the Casino itself, one seldom wanders about with Casino with high stake chips in their pocket. HUMMMMMM, If one cannot get a man in his position for sex or drugs or any kind of malfeasance of Duty, it takes allot of ingenuity to find a way to screw him over.
Innocent until proven guilty-----He may well be guilty but how the heck was he caught ???
We go to the Casinos every 2-3 years with just $100.00 each and have been lucky to win chips now and then. Walk up to the window and turn them in, we do not examine the chips, nor does the people behind the Bars. Just a quick look and the money is paid out.
Unless this Officer was winning big time, how to tell why he was under observation. Friend or ours went to Fox wood on a bus with us, he became a bit inebriated and began to make bets on black jack.
When he began to make bets of $100.00 a hand in comes a man on a electric rolling cart armed with camera. We managed to drag him out by the time he lost $500.00 but darn he was not happy with us, One more hand he kept saying as we rolled him onto the bus to go home.
I do not know how a Casino with all the security involved could be taken for thousands of dollars with false chips, and then not press charges on the man and now the Government is involved.
We used to bait lobsters with salted red fish, the smell was something one had to get use to. I am getting a whiff now but do not know what way the wind is blowing.
