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[TheeBadOne]

Booze-Fueled Fight Forces South Pole Evacuation

Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole in December 1911.

Ninety-six years later, another achievement was reached — the South Pole's first bar fight.

Without releasing names, the National Science Foundation, which runs the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, confirmed that two men had to be evacuated from the base Christmas Day after what one person characterized as a "drunken Christmas punch-up."

A C-130 Hercules military transport plane had to be dispatched from McMurdo Station, the main U.S. research base far to the north on the Antarctic coast, after one of the men suffered a broken jaw.

"There was an altercation between two people," National Science Foundation spokesman Peter West told the New Zealand Herald. "There's no indication of the cause or of the background between the two folks."

But Britain's The Guardian reported alcohol had been involved, and its competitor The Telegraph said the fisticuffs were over a woman.

Canada's National Post said the antagonists were both employees of Raytheon International, the defense contractor that does the construction and maintenance work at the Amundsen-Scott station.

The injured man was flown on to a Christchurch, New Zealand hospital, at a cost of about $85,000. He was discharged Dec. 26 and was said to be recovering locally.

The other man got an early return to the U.S. — without his job.

[BILLY D.]

Combine Poo-Ying, Alcohol, and charged up Men= FIGHT. Reminds me of 'nam.

Shucks, just sit back, put your feet on the table and enjoy the festivities.

At Phu Cat in '68 there was a slight disagreement between the AP's a two ROK guys. Over a "girl", after too much booze. Get the drift here?

Well the Commander of The Air Police sent in the re-enforcements. Four of our best Cops and two German Shepard Dogs. The ROK's assessed the situation and the first things to go flying out the Bar was two quite dead GERMAN Shepards followed closely by 4 Air policeman. They were still alive though. Koreans don't really like dogs a whole lot. Next was the 4 Cops.

The AP Commander was notified of the situation and Called the ROK Commander and the Base Commander for for a meeting. And they all showed up at the Club to straighten things out. The bad thing about the situation was the NCO clubs would hire local girls, ie: ladies of the night. some were cute and the ones that weren't started looking that way about 1230 at night. They could have hired Males but thats another story. :D

Any way it's darned hard to keep your mind on a good Poker or Black Jack game with all these distractions a going on.

By the way, the ROK'S were Republic of Korea Soldiers that were responsible for Security Of the Base perimeter. Might I add they were DAMNED good at their job. They could make an M-60 or a 40mm Pom-Pom sing a beautiful song. Never had to worry with those guys around. Boy, could they fight. The only people I respected more were the Montagnards. Thats another story.

If you want to have a lot of fun, mix Booze, Men and Women in an isolated location and wait for the fun to begin. As much as I like booze and Women I never found any that were worth getting beat up or dying for. Except.

Best wishes, Bill

[Dan Morris]

Somehow, I was under the impression that alcohol was verboten at remote sites....to prevent this stuff. Also, that personnel had under gone background stress evaluations to
prevent freakouts????????
Dan

[fabsroman]

Women can make men freak out even if the men aren't already under any stress. LOL

[buckhunter]

I can remeber once in the Netherlands during my one and only Med cruise that two of the US Navy's finest off a Destroyer got into it with a couple of Airmen off the US Essex over a young lady in a bar.

Turn out the lady was shall be say not really a lady.

It was pretty funny and the combatants even thought so after all was said and done.

Did anyone say alcohol was involved?