Hello Jeff,

The USN abolished the rum ration in 1862. The RN substituted beer for rum rations in 1970. The RAN apparently did not have rum rations unless they were onboard a RN ship and that was revoked in 1921. The RCN abolished rum rations in 1972 and the RNZN held out until 1990.

Tom Rux

> On 07/27/2020 1:56 PM Jeff Zeitlin <xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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 Article XXI Amending repealed Article XVIII Amending, and explicitly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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