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...brightly as Joseph Steffan. He not only ranked among the top 10 in his class at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1987 but as a battalion commander, had under his command one-sixth of the school's students. Then, just six weeks before graduation, Steffan told a fellow midshipman that he was gay. Although there was no evidence that Steffan had ever engaged in a homosexual act, a disciplinary board determined that his sexual orientation was reason enough for discharge. Academy officials downgraded Steffan's military performance from A to F, and Steffan was forced to resign...
...experience as a Navy ROTC midshipman was a very limited taste of military life. Except for the hectic boot camp at Quantico, I lived like any other college student. Regular active-duty military personnel live full-time in barracks racks, ships and submarines. And although all military personnel go through some kind of boot camp, subsequent service life is generally more normal (a relative term), allowing the common worries and concerns of life to creep back...
...reputation owes much to a string of highly publicized incidents. In 1987 Pentagon investigators uncovered "morally repugnant behavior" on a Navy salvage ship cruising the western Pacific, which included the captain's performing oral sex on a prostitute in front of his crew. In 1990 a female midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy resigned after she was handcuffed to a urinal by male midshipmen. There have also been reports of rapes and sexual assaults...
...Midshipman Harry Brewer, played by Larry Bramire, is also fascinating as a man tortured by his conscience and by the ghosts of the dead, as is Chloe Leamon's Dabby Bryant--a woman with a will to live--and Sheila Ferrini's embittered Liz Morden, a convict with the shadow of the gallows upon...
Navy ROTC midshipman Kedron V. McDonald '93,who said that her views did not reflect those ofthe military or of her ROTC unit, told the forumthat the diversity Harvard students would add tothe military might help bring about changes inDepartment of Defense policy...