When the R and R assignments were announced, I'd just left the awards grinder and was ready to crawl into my rack and get some rest. I sat on the bunk, smoking, and debated on getting sleep or getting the news of my destination for ten days out of the fight called Viet Nam.
I had been on the border to North Viet Nam for more than seven months and had the prospect of five or more months before I could rotate back to the World. Hell of a way to win the war.
When I thought about it; for sure an air-conditioned peaceful room with clean sheets, so out I went.
Australia is my destination. Now I couldn't sleep thinking of a sun-kissed, no tan lines, naked and shapely, young, bright-eyed woman riding me while I s illed her full of come.
During the ten days I would have, I would make every effort to make sure she would have a seeping slit until I had to return for four more months country.
When I woke up in the dark, rockets and mortars were exploding in the same area of the post where I was billeted. The rockets rained all around, so I found my smokes and lit a Marlboro to enjoy while remembering the wet-dream of the naked beach beauty that caused the gooey mess in my lap.
The Freedom-10 flight landed in Melbourne, and you would have thought we'd landed in Disneyland. The USO had plenty of young women there who were plotting to marry Americans. They wanted to meet American Soldiers on R and R and get married.
An Australian eighteen-to-twenty year-old woman is not the exact image of an American combat Marine's perfect wife forever. The 10-days of wild activity in Melbourne would never seem to resemble what real life could be after the war. It was a fantasyland of fornicating and wild gatherings of promiscuous people of both sexes hoping for this occasion to define their personal limits of sexual conduct.
Then R and R spin off results were;
1. An increase in the number of American veterans immigrating to Australia as soon as they could get the paperwork figured out.
2. It also increased the number of Australian widows from the prewar percentages of matching populations, and those long range survivor benefits for the widows.
3. The tourist industry of Australia had the best PR in the World when we/they returned to the war and started telling stories about how tight, or what bra cup size, or the amount of alcohol or dope, or the fight we'd had, and don't forget how many times, and with how much cock he had sexually satisfied her pussy and himself, again and again and in many cases overdid themselves not only while in Australia, but in the telling of the tale also.
4. And then, by the time he'd written a censored letter home, it had been the best time ever. (My Dad told me) when I returned to the World that Momma had said out loud, "That child has been fornicating, Mel. What can I do?"
5. We, Momma, included, still laugh about her comment up until her death.
6. The R and R receptions increased the number of whores working the bars near the USO hotel event. Was It impossible to know if a woman was a whore only by observing? Ten years later, it came out in the studies that the Aussie women thought they were doing it for their country.
7. A lot of violence against women went unreported, as you can imagine. Most of the violence occurred when an Australian bloke would lose his 'Sheila' to a hardened combat killer. The result was often broken marriages which records another elevated level of social crime.
When the moonshine was flowing, these eighteen-year-old women could clearly recall their Momma and Grand-momma's whispered and told out loud tales about their trysts on the docks during World War II and again during the Korean War. The saloons and clubs of Australia during the Viet Nam era were divided into a lounge for women and men and a separate part of the bar for MEN ONLY. The discussions in the lounge area were often uncensored as the women sank deeper into their cups.
But after ten years, when asked by the USO to fill out the planned tenth-year survey, the women had recorded and reported that most of them benefited from their conscious shift to a looser acceptance of moral behavioral by themselves to catch one of these dangerous lovers/killers.
Ninety percent of these women, when asked if they now knew by observation which others among them were on that playing field, the answers were over 90%, and accurately sure they knew.
Could they detect a fellow player in the grocers or at their kids' school?
It was most obvious when the woman had dressed nicer than most women for an event or function or routinely in a day at the market. For sure if it was with a friend's backyard party atmosphere, a pool party, or a BBQ; they became glaringly obvious to each other.
Was there a trademark or 'tell?' The 'tell' was the raised eyebrow that asked the nasty suggestion. These eighteen-year-old Australian women had access to the top of the species; active warriors. So, in enticing these dangerous sperm-filled testosterone-oozing mates, they saw the males' weakness of the softened eyebrow. These women had created their 'tell' during their years of this group's activity. Learned by discussions of habits, and near misses, and they learned to share and practice what was successful. The same tell worked for all of the conflicts as told by those women.
Australian and US Military Police charges against a GI would be recorded. The GI was nearly always released for the rest of his Freedom-10 R and R. The whole process resembled a slap on the wrist.
I found a pale as porcelain, freckled redhead; a black Aborigine with traditional facial scarring; and a big, blonde, plain woman, all hugging and kissing me when I got off the flight. My brain immediately thought that if I could, I would fuck the blonde and the redhead. When the other gal looked away and disappeared, a black-haired blue eyed gal with an Irish brogue took her place and grasped my cock, and said, "I don't care who else you may have ideas about; you WILL fuck me first. So, let's go right now."
Not fucked by a woman for seven months, I let her pull me away from the 'Welcome to Australia' greeting affair.
Earlier, she'd found an entrance to a stairwell. She was leading, all the while pleading through the lobby and into the stairwell, "Let this be it, let this be it. Are you married? What's your name? Are you a Marine? No condom, I'm a naturist, Mate." While talking steadily, she bared her butt to me and bent over the handrail.
A pussy. Red hair everywhere!