[Warchief]

While I was at Ft Devens with 10th SFG in the early 80's the teams had some unique and custom built team rooms. Many of the team rooms featured a small bar area where the team would gather at the end of the day or week to decompress and foster a stronger team spirit. Eventually, the word came down from Group HQ to remove all alcohol and bars from the team rooms as drinking in government buildings was no longer considered acceptable. Shortly afterwards, our team (ODA 233) isolated in our team room for a Battalion level mission planning exercise. Teams were to briefback to the Battalion Commander and staff in the team room at the end of the ISO period. When the Battalion Commander came into our team room, the first thing he noticed and immediately commented about was that we had not removed our team room’s wooden bar. He was a little irate to say the least and demanded that Team Sergeant explain to him why he had failed to follow the Commander’s directive. The Team calmly and patiently explained to him that we had removed all adult beverages and our bar from the team room per the Commander’s order. The Commander said, “Well, then what the hell is that?” Team Sergeant said, “Oh, that’s just an L shaped podium of course.”