Hacker,

I think the AF Deployed AOR folks have it wrong- we are either in Garrison- allowed families and booze or we are in combat and most rules designed for Garrison don't apply. The USMC is correct, it's a Garrison issue they are re-emphasizing. Here's a good one- at the main OIF out of country but in theater base a fellow dreamed up a sign- "don't walk on the rocks due to erosion". It was a joke put in for the req'd in-brief for aircrew. After a few months the purity police started enforcing the erosion rule (which had spread by WOM in the chow halls...).

2 very different branches of service.