
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, April 14, 1994                   TAG: 9404140340
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: TOKYO                                 LENGTH: Short

FLIERS' NEWSLETTER A BAWDY RECORD

Peppered with boasts of drinking binges, skirt chasing and irreverent jibes at the powers that be, the Drink Booze News is the quarterly newsletter of an aviators' social club that claims a worldwide membership of officers in the U.S. Air Force - from fighter pilots to brigadier generals.

The club is called the Command Barstool Association and, according to a Booze News copy obtained by The Associated Press, has chapters in nearly two dozen Air Force Bases in the United States and at least six more overseas.

The 32-page edition distributed to members last summer has photos of ``stoolers'' mooning, carrying a bikini-clad woman and posing with an inflatable adult toy.

Much of the issue was devoted to a report under the banner headline, ``Convention 1993 Hell Of A Success!'' The article said that ``after a lot of begging'' a dancer hired for the convention revealed her breasts.

There is no indication the stoolers' convention was as rowdy as the Tailhook convention of aviators that shook the Navy. Even so, the commander of the Air Force's largest tactical fighter wing recently quit the group.

Maj. Bob Watson, an Air Force spokesman at the Pentagon, confirmed that Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Cliver, commander of the 18th Tactical Fighter Wing at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, was a member 19 years and quit last spring because ``he felt that there was a perception that it could be misconstrued."

Watson said the Air Force wasn't aware the group existed until recently.

``We've never had a complaint about it,'' he said. ``I think there are several ways to look at it. It could just be innocent fun.''

by CNB