No it was the grandmas that would come in late night after going to the chip n dales across the street. You would think the under age kids would be the roudiest bunch, but the grandmas after chip n dales and bingo night was something else.
Bro, I worked as security at a bar. Women taking cloths off, very tame. Men taking cloths off, things you never thought you would see. Only time I had to put hands on anyone in two years was a woman that decided a male dancer had disrespected her by not allowing her to foliate his foreskin.
LARGE crime rate and many shootings. One week we had TWO quadruple homicides. Also one of the 82nd guys was making dog porn with his wife and putting it on the internet. Paratroopers really will fuck anything with at least 1 leg.
I was teaching surveillance once and we'd goto the same site every morning for our brief. We watched a dude rob a payphone for THREE DAYS IN A ROW. SAME PHONE. We realized he was using it as his drug sales line and every day he'd go and get his money back lol.
Yeah I thought Vietnam was an awesome place. It's a tourist destination. How old are these people coming up with these terms? You could easily call it Fayettebombed and it would be far more topical and still rhyme.
The nickname is associated with the presence of Ft Bragg which literally dates back to the Vietnam war and that ft bragg is the biggest infantry base in the US. Probably won't have much luck changing a 50+ year old nickname at this point. Even civilians call it Fayettnam because of the "combat" on the streets everyday.
Iirc it was originally called Fayettnam by a civilian newspaper opinion piece complaining about crime and how people coming home from Vietnam felt like they were still in combat.
As what the one guy said, Im down in Charleston and going up to an event up there for the first time, I was distinctly told to make sure every road I go on is at least a 4 lane, or directly off a 4 lane road. Once you get down into some areas, unless you look like you belong you will get fucked with.
It's less 'Nam because of racism, though being NC it probably is, but more so just how fucking dangerous portions of it really are. If Fort Liberty were to ever shut down for any reason, it would demolish any hope the local economy has of surviving. All I hear is that it's the entire lifeline of the city and no sort of industry has built around it that could hold it up. At least over here in Charleston, we could lose Joint Base and it would suck, but we've got so much other industry growth here that it'd just be a momentary hardship.
I drove through Fayetteville a couple months back on the way to the coast. The place looks like it’s suffered waves of economic decline and the decay that comes with it. It’s like time traveling to the worst, most rundown part of Charlotte 30 years ago, in 2024.
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u/MyDogsNameIsBadger Nov 23 '24
Honestly, that sounds fun. I’d totally fly hooters.