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- From: livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey)
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- Subject: Re: Showering in the Military (Re: Gays in the Military..what nobody is talking about: )
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 20:08:18 GMT
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- In article <Bzn89s.87y@andy.bgsu.edu>, jnomina@andy.bgsu.edu (A.P.K.) writes:
- |> rj24@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Robert Johnston) writes:
- |> >
- |> > There is NO reason, other than bigotry, to keep homosexuals out of
- |> > the military. The question of showering and rooming together is
- |> > quite irrelevant. Do you think that there aren't gays in the military
- |> > now? How many soldiers do you think have been approached sexually,
- |> > in a harassing manner, by another man in the shower? I'll bet you can't
- |> > think of even one case.
- |>
- |> While I'm not in on this discussion directly, I was a non-com in
- |> the army, and I COULD cite a few cases of such behavior, if you
- |> REALLY wanted me to, from not-too-distant experience. One of my
- |> OWN privates once came to me with this very same problem once.
- |> Infrequent? Probably. Doesn't happen? Not on your life...
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- If you know of such a case, you must have reported it, otherwise you
- would have been in deriliction of duty, no?
-
- So what happened? Was the person punished?
-
- jon.
-