On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:27:02 -0700 (PDT), Thomas RUX <xxxxxx@comcast.net>
wrote:

>The USN was pretty much based on the RN with modifications with the President as the Commander in Chief versus the ruling Queen/King. Of course we also lost out on the rum ration.

My understanding is that the 'rum ration' was lost to the United States
Navy (and any equivalent in the other services as well) as a result of the
passing of Article XVIII Amending [the Constitution of the United States],
and it was not restored on the passage of Article XXI Amending.

Many police departments "took away the rum ration" from their officers by
instituting regulations that basically amount to

"Because you are privileged to carry a gun at all times in the name of the
 People of the State of Confusion, you are also expected to be ready and
 able at all times, sleep excepted, to respond to crimes committed against
 the PotSoC. It is therefore an offense under the Rules and Regulation of
 the Department ["Rendering oneself unfit for duty"] to consume alcohol or
 similarly-effecting substances while on duty, or when not on duty to be
 intoxicated or impaired through the consumption of alcohol or other
 similarly-effecting products."

This doesn't prohibit the cop from having a beer or two when he goes "off
duty", but it does mean that if he gets stupid drunk and comes to the
official attention of his colleagues, he will find himself at the very
least with the pointy end of the "Captain's Mast" in very intimate contact
with portions of his anatomy usually used for the expulsion of
nondigestible solids.

(For those who are not familiar with the Constitution of the United States,
Article XVIII Amending barred the [legal] production and sale of alcoholic
beverages in all jurisdictions under the authority of the United States;
Article XXI Amending repealed Article XVIII Amending, and explicitly
delegated the choice to the several States. Some states have chosen to move
the decision authority down to the county level. It is an interesting
tidbit that the county in which Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey is produced
has chosen to be a "dry" county (sale of alcoholic beverages prohibited),
and its best-known product, with world-wide reach, cannot be purchased
there.)

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