Called to active booty

GIs coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan can look forward to an especially warm welcome in Carson City, Nev. The working girls at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, the city's venerable legal brothel, want to show their thanks by servicing the servicemen.

Proprietor Dennis Hof says he's prepared to foot the bill for 200 soldiers to have sex at his establishment between now and Thanksgiving.

"We used to give them turkeys," the Bunny Ranchero tells us. "I think they'll like this better."

Hof says he'll pay his girls their usual rate, having budgeted the R&R at $100,000.

The self-proclaimed Barnum of Booty was moved to extend the offer after receiving E-mails from enlisted men who see his hit HBO reality show, "Cathouse," at bases abroad.

"Every other war we fought, there were chicks everywhere," says Hof, whose show is headed for a fourth season. "Nobody's getting any in Afghanistan or Iraq."

Commanding officers may frown upon the debauchery, but Hof insists that his ladies are looking forward to the patriotic gesture.

"We're going to buy all the GIs drinks," says Hof, who gave MSNBC's Rita Cosby a ranch tour that airs tomorrow. "And I've told the girls, 'Take your time.' We're going to spoil them."