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...Francisco four sailors and two Marines were sentenced to a year in jail after they pleaded guilty to beating a homosexual man lured from a bar, and seaman Terry Helvey was charged by the Navy in the bludgeoning murder of gay shipmate Allen Schindler near the U.S. naval base at Sasebo, Japan. Thus, even as opponents of Clinton's easing of restrictions against gay military personnel raised the specter of unrestrained homosexuals running rampant through their ranks, more tangible threats to military discipline were coming from the straight and narrow-minded already in uniform...
...after the election, Powell repeated his personal objection to lifting the ban. But the President-elect left the meeting believing that the general would not stand in his way. It came as a shock when Powell went public with his opposition during a Jan. 12 speech at the U.S. Naval Academy. "Colin really torpedoed our strategy," says a White House aide. "What you see with Powell is not always what...
That doesn't mean lesbians have it easy. According to Humphrey, who wrote a history of homosexuals in the U.S. military titled My Country, My Right to Serve, women are expelled 10 times as often as men for their sexual orientation. Amy, a medical corpsman at the Naval Training Center in Orlando, Florida, feels so threatened that she pretends to date a male gay friend of hers. "I grab crotches, I make sexual innuendos," she says. "The more they suspect, the more I try to cover up." Recently, a married male officer made overtures. She did not file a sexual...
...gently making it known that if President Clinton lifts the ban on gays and lesbians in the military, he just might resign. General Powell has strong moral and pragmatic objections to the idea, according to close friends. In comments that went unnoticed during a recent visit to the U.S. Naval Academy, Powell said that if "you find it completely unacceptable and it strikes to the heart of your moral beliefs, then I think you have to resign." He may not be alone. Meeting with Secretary of Defense Les Aspin last week, the other five members of the Joint Chiefs forcefully...
...life, as you may have noticed, is not a close-order drill. Even in the Marines things get messy. At the Guantanamo naval base in Cuba, known to servicemen as Gitmo, a private is dead -- the result of harassment by two members of his platoon. The victim was a screw-up who compounded his sins by stepping outside the chain of command to report a rules infraction and seek a transfer. A "Code Red" -- informal disciplinary action by his barracksmates -- is suspected. But are the offenders wholly culpable? Or did they act under orders (or tacit encouragement) from superior officers...