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More typically, matters are not confronted directly. Antigay servicemen single out targets, spreading rumors behind their back, carving butt pirate and die faggot on their lockers and spraying their beds with sexual lubricant. To avoid becoming a target, gay men sometimes play along, trying to mask their pain. They smirk gamely at gay jokes and go to lengths to cloak their true identity. Some invent girlfriends or wives, or even date women. Blatant lies about sexual orientation, however, risk perjury charges if a homosexual comes under investigation. Most, therefore, simply disclose nothing about their personal life. "The result...
After all the fuss over possible POWs in Russia and Vietnam, a U.S. Senator just back from Pyongyang says hundreds of American servicemen captured during the Korean War were sent to China and never returned. Bob Smith, a New Hampshire Republican, vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, said, "Every single Korean official we talked to confirmed" that U.S. prisoners of war had been sent to China. "They weren't returned," he said. Beijing has repeatedly denied that China kept any American POWs except for 21 who asked to stay...
...political situation," he said. "They didn't realize that in doing what we did, we became a combatant." When a narrowly defined military role conflicted with political demands, the Marines came to be seen as everyone's enemy, which led to the 1983 bombing in Beirut that killed 241 servicemen...
Marine talk drifts back and forth. Sergeant Darrell Siler's face twitches when someone mentions the Oct. 23, 1983, truck-bomb attack in Lebanon that killed 241 U.S. servicemen. Had he not been on leave that day, Siler would probably have been killed with his buddies. "There's a lot of places in Mogadishu that remind me of Beirut," he says. His voice cracks. "I hope nothing like that ever happens here. Our rules of engagement are different. There we couldn't fire unless we were fired on, and we had to get permission first. Here we can use deadly...
...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...