Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Laura C. Moore, MIT Class of 1991, was an ROTC midshipman as an undergraduate and served on active duty. Moore says she never came out about her bisexuality while she was saving but saw many cases of discrimination against other recruits...
...ROTC unit at MIT had students from Harvard, MIT, Wellesley, and Tufts--a pretty enlightened and educated bunch of people," she says. "Yet when the topic came to gays in the military, the level of anger and closed-mindedness I saw was shocking...
Moore says that while she was in ROTC, there was a push by some Harvard midshipmen to bring the program back to campus. She remembers talking about the discrimination issue with one of the students behind the campaign: "He said that the military shouldn't have to accept people who had something wrong with them, whether they were gay or had a leg missing, or whatever--his words...
...There weren't any openly gay people in ROTC to discriminate against, but the atmosphere was certainly homophobic," she adds, saying that among midshipmen, the word "fag" was considered to be the ultimate insult...
...tells the story of an MIT student who was in her company in ROTC for a semester. When the student came out to his unit commander at the beginning of his senior year, the Navy demanded he payback the first three years of his full scholar-ship...