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...Schoen, the time for reinstatement has passed, but for other gay veterans the question is more urgent. Petty Officer Keith Meinhold, 30, who resumed a 12-year Navy career when a federal court ordered him reinstated despite his homosexuality -- which he says he discovered only after years in uniform -- asserted that he was being subjected to unusual daily uniform and haircut inspections and other close scrutiny. Former Staff Sergeant Thomas Paniccia filed suit in U.S. District Court in Arizona last week to salvage his 11-year career, which ended in October after he, like Meinhold, acknowledged his homosexuality on national...
...because being gay will no longer be grounds for expulsion does not mean that every gay in the military will come out of the closet. Some will fear harassment; some will simply prefer discretion, the way gay civilians generally do. In all likelihood the vast majority of gays in uniform will keep their sexuality largely private. They will simply stop living in fear that someone may find out and cost them their future. Those who might wish to be flamboyant or confrontational would probably not prosper regardless of sexual preference, because their personalities do not suit a top-down command...
Resistance flares to lifting the ban on gays in uniform...
After all, the man is notoriously averse to conflict. But he's already gotten a taste of the kind of controversy the gays-in-uniform issue engenders, and whether he likes it or not, this issue will be the first major test of his ability to satisfy the broad coalition that elected him without disappointing the liberals who represent his roots...
Robb Hirsch, the 119th Captain of the Harvard Crimson, will step onto that vestigial plot of grass across the river for the last time today in a crimson uniform...