The Overseas Weekly was a tabloid distributed commercially to the U. S. military in Europe, specializing in scandals about the military.

The stories below are essentially on target.

However, the use of marijuana by the U. S. military in Europe in the 1960's was actually much more widespread than these articles suggest, but quietly ignored by the Army.  An all-out crackdown on pot was out of the question, as it would have been later in Viet-Nam. There would have been no Army left.

The significance of this case is somewhat overblown by the OW, the style is quaint, and some details have been embellished, to get more people to buy the paper.

No harm done.  I blew the whistle, but no one else went to jail, no one else got in trouble, no other reputations were tarnished.

On the plus side, I learned more about human nature in those 53 days in Bar le Duc than in any other similar period. And the Army quietly gave me an early out, which was exactly what I wanted.

Thank you, Charlie Barr, wherever you are.

Ed Schreiber

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