Denise Gamino: ABOARD A TROOP PLANE — Flight attendant John Bechtold keys the public address mike just moments after this wide-body jet swooshes into the humid Texas sky.
His message is not the usual seatbelts-fastened advisory.
He lectures on chew.
Smokeless tobacco is banned. But Bechtold's been flying with soldiers since America invaded the Middle East after 9/11. He knows dip is on board.
Don't spit into the seat back pockets, he warns. Don't leave it in the seats. Above all, don't spit in the lavatories.
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