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Time Magazine May 6, 1966

Disneyland East

The excess baggage of war has always included women. Strumpets
trailed the trumpets of Joshua at Jericho and marched in the
legions of Rome. Sir Gawaine was not the only knight-errant; in one
year alone, the crusaders counted the aid of 13,000 camp followers
in their quest for the holy sepulcher. In World War I, they were
the vivandiérs, in Saigon today, the b-girls are called tea
girls. Wherever two or three soldiers gather together, prostitutes
ore sure to flock, adding to the disorder that follows in the wake
of armies everywhere.

Nowhere was the shock of massive encampment grater in Vietnam
than in the sleepy little town of An Khe in the barren central
highland. Late last summer, 21,000 troopers of the U.S. 1st Cavalry
(Airmobile) set up tents and helipads near An Khe. Prostitutes and
profiteers swarmed into the town; prices for everything from beef
to beer soared, ad did the incidence of disease among the
americans. Dysentery and other intestinal diseases multiplied
fourfold within four months. venereal disease soon afflicted nearly
an third of the G.I.s.

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