right you are Frenchman
"blanket parties" were threatened for failure to pay up on pay day, not a day longer. We were a pretty tight group with few problems during the Korean days. I did have a guy in the bunk under me who for whatever reason didn't like to take a shower. After about 4 days, I got out a GI brush and threatened to make him bleed in the shower, along with a major kicked ass...he got the message and the hygiene (along with the odor) improved substantially.
The boat ride to Korea from California was one of those things in life that are truly seared into your memory. We went from Oakland, CA to Honolulu. Along with us were several dependents who were housed in the top decks of the ship, they were going to Honolulu. Needless to say, there were a few hotties that tantalized the hell out of us and rumor had it that a couple of guys scored in life boats of all things! If you recall the scene in Cool Hand Luke, where the hottie chick was washing her car with soap all over her...it was much like that.
Somehow I got selected to use a grinder to chip paint off a wall. Rubber glove, mask and this heavy grinder. I did that for a few hours, then put the gear down and disappeared, never got caught. The temps in the middle of the Pacific in July can be brutal.
After Honolulu we trudged on to Yokohama where we hit the edge of a typhoon. The ship rocked and rolled and the waves were like scenes out of old Victory at Sea movies. We just hung on, with people getting sick left and right. Eating can be left to the imagination...disgusting!
Inchon harbor in Korea is too shallow for the big ship, so we had to load up in those LST landing boats. A file of these boats were going in with the new guys and a bunch going out with folks going home. I will never forget one outgoing boat that had a pretty good group of women (we assumed nurses), who just stood ther with a thumbs down as we passed by. Crazy times for a 19 year old kid then.