A Hundred Years Dry: The U.S. Navy's End of Alcohol at Sea – USNI News

[vinnyglennon]

https://news.usni.org/2014/07/01/hundred-years-dry-u-s-navys-end-alcohol-sea

[sillywalk]

This was the 'rum ration' they inherited from the Brits.

FTA: "the U.S. Navy established in 1794 that sailors were to receive “one half-pint of distilled spirits” a day."

[coldtea]

Killjoys