Drop Weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan

I started working in strip clubs in 2006, so a lot of my customers were soldiers on leave, between deployments. Often times, they’d have large sums of money, with no interest in saving it for their futures. Many soldiers during this time frame preferred to spend their money on strippers. While I did protest the Iraq war and said “fuck the troops” in my free time, I also enjoyed learning about serial killers. I enjoyed spending candid moments with traumatized U.S. soldiers in VIP rooms. For the most part, they were some of the most high spending, respectful, docile customers I have ever had. One thing I remember learning about early on in my stripper career was drop weapons. If a soldier accidently killed a civilian, he was often instructed to just plant a weapon on the dead body. That way, the solider would be able to have a self-defense argument and wouldn’t get in trouble. After the U.S. pulled out of Afghanistan a couple of years ago, I re-visited this time in my life, and read a lot of new articles reflecting on that time. I thought it was interesting that many of the things I had privately learned about by working in strip clubs— like drop weapons— were relatively unknown to the public.

I am still trying to figure out how to do a podcast, and am interested in speaking with any strippers who worked during that era. I’m also interested in speaking with former soldiers from that era on the podcast. If anyone would like to talk about that publicly, please message me.