MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan -- There has been an increase in Marines and sailors frequenting an off-limits establishment connected to prostitution here.According to Marine Corps Air Station Order 5800.19A, the establishment now known as “Follow Me” is placed off-limits to service members. Personnel should be aware of its off-limit status, due to briefings provided to newly arrived personnel by Naval Criminal Investigative Service, covering everything an incoming Marine needs to know to stay out of trouble, said David N. Truesdale, NCIS Supervisory Special Agent and Philadelphia native. In addition, there is a sign posted at the main gate, visible to all personnel who walk off station. The “Follow Me” bar is off-limits because it is connected to the Happy Night Massage Bar. “The massage parlor is engaging in acts of prostitution,” said Truesdale.According to a new provision to the Manual for Courts Martial, added by President George Bush last year, patronizing a prostitute is now a punishable offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Prostitution and patronizing a prostitute is punishable by up to one year in jail, forfeiture of all pay and allowances and a dishonorable discharge.“You could walk across the street and get a beer and not lose rank, but go into that place and you could potentially (get in trouble), so why would you want to do it?” said Truesdale.The bar, which was formerly called All In Bar and Sky-1 Bar has gone through a series of name changes over the years in an attempt to subvert the off-limits policy. The order originally put an off-limits status to one of its older names. “The Follow Me Bar is the only bar that is currently off-limits,” Truesdale said. “Regardless of what name it changes to, it will remain off limits.”Truesdale feels service members need to be educated about the prostitution business. Prostitution is not a high class job like you see in Hollywood movies and Las Vegas. In fact, most prostitutes are forced into the job and are victims, sexually exploited slaves. “People don’t understand the background of why people get into prostitution,” said Truesdale. “If people understood how people get involved in it - they probably wouldn’t patronize it. It is not something you would want your mom or sister to be involved in. Nobody seeks a career in prostitution.” According to Lt. Cmdr. Brent D. Johnson, Marine Aircraft Group 12 group chaplain and native of Williston, N.D., “Pimps” will travel to third world countries and ask innocent women if they would like to work in Japan in the hotel industry. They offer a career, and funds to buy a Visa. As soon as the miss guided girls arrive here, the “Pimps” strip them of their passport and Visa and force them to work in brothels. “Somebody else, not her, is making all of the money,” added Johnson. “You are not helping the prostitute out. She is getting toothpaste money to make sure she is clean and neat for the next customer and that is about it. She is not making a living off of it.”Places like the Follow Me bar give the military a bad name when service members patronize them. Lance Cpl. Nick K. James feels it is a waste of money to begin with.“We are all descent looking guys. Why would you go to a prostitution place when you could get a nice girlfriend,” said the Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron administrative clerk and native of Oak Forest, Ill.The bar is located in Marifu Bar District in downtown Iwakuni. It is three blocks away from the popular Indian restaurant Ganesh and across the street from the IKOI Coffee and Snack Bar.