NATIONAL NOTES 13 MAY 2022 Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By TwiceRetired Re: If these indignant snowflakes had ANY knowledge that extended past the sheltered and insulated confines of the school yard, they’d know that drug searches happen in the real world. Thinking back to my squad leader days in the ’70s, it happened regularly – show up at the barracks at o-dark-thirty and tear apart your squad members’ room looking for imaginative places they might’ve hidden any illegal drugs. It wasn’t prompted by suspicious activity. It was an equal opportunity search. Fast-forward to Saudi Arabia at the end of the First Gulf War. I got to go on a 3-day R & R to Bahrain. To get there, you take a bus across a 14-mile bridge over the Persian Gulf (think going down to the keys from mainland Florida). At the international border, halfway in between, there was a manmade island (it looked like a big traffic roundabout with parking). Three days later, on the way back, the bus stopped there. Everybody had to leave their overnight bag on the bus and disembark. This was done so a crew of Saudi police could go through the entire bus, including the passengers’ bags, looking for any porn, booze or drugs. 4 1
