Word: naval
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...also enlivened our social life. Romance blossomed, as more and more Harvard students were drafted or enlisted and went off overseas to fight. Many Radcliffe students, including me, got married, and Radcliffe now allowed married students to remain in college. One Radcliffe dorm housed WAVES, women naval officers attending the U.S. Naval Service Supply School at the Harvard Business School, bringing war very close to home. On graduation, almost 10 percent of our class went into the services...
...Naval Airman Terry Helvey was sentenced to life in prison for beating a gay shipmate to death. Helvey, who pleaded guilty, denied in court that the victim's homosexuality was a motive, but documents released after the trial indicated Helvey's longstanding ill will against the gay sailor...
...pony show," says Lieut. (j.g.) Tracy Thorne, a "Top Gun" navy bombardier who is being removed from active duty because of his homosexuality. "He's got the witness list totally skewed against those who want to lift the ban." When the Senate panel | toured the Norfolk (Virginia) Naval Base last week to hear from the rank and file, 15 of the 17 witnesses supported the ban. Thorne claims that several straight officers and enlisted personnel had volunteered to testify in favor of lifting the ban but were screened out by base officials working with Nunn's staff. The Campaign...
Senator Sam Nunn's Senate Armed Services Committee resumed its hearings on gays in the military with a shrewd photo-op tour of bunks in cramped naval vessels. In a week of testimony that included pleas to lift the ban on gay servicemen and -women and assertions by retired Army General Norman Schwarzkopf that openly gay soldiers would undermine morale, the emotional high point was Marine Colonel Fred Peck's surprise declaration that he would discourage his son Scott -- "a recruiter's dream" -- from joining the military "because my son is a homosexual." Many Senators seemed inclined toward a tricky...
...child of a retired Marine Corps Officer, Vietnam veteran, and graduate of the United States Naval Academy, I am responding to comments recently made by Brent McGuire, Policy Director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club...