May 15,2008:
The U.S. Army in Afghanistan has
removed the prohibition on sex between male and female soldiers. Since the
1990s, the army has been big on clean living (or whatever you want to call it)
in combat zones. No booze, no sex and not cavorting (you know what that means)
with the locals. But with about fifteen percent of the troops in combat zones
being female, and most of them young and single, things happened. Some couples
got caught. Commanders got tired of having to punish (usually with an Article
15, which is just short of a court martial) troops for "unauthorized
fornication." So now it is, if not authorized, not likely to get you punished.
Y'all have a nice time now.