Dear Bart of the Cop -
 
About yesterday's "military discharge for gays" story, here's my (sort of) story from the late '60s.
 
After losing my full academic scholarship to a major university in 1966 because I was doing drunken donuts in my GTO
at 4 AM outside the dorm, I joined the Navy.  Now looky here: I was REAL stupid, dumb, didn't know who I was or
what I was doing.  But here I was "working" maritime traffic (communications specialist) on the east coast (from Mayport
- Sixth Fleet) with a giant security clearance and access to encyrption, all those black boxes and machines, etc.
 
Meanwhile, I found it odd that everybody was trying to screw me.  In boot camp.  In radio school.  At the base.
In New Jersey and Connecticut as in Florida.  The enlisted men.  The medics.  The offciers - all trying to screw me.
One very high-ranking officer took me into a bathroom and tried to stick his tongue in my mouth.  I mean, it was one
after another from the minute I got in there until late one night when the cook, drunk again, threw his leg across the
console of the GTO in a suggestive effort and, with that, hit the floor shift knocking the transmission into reverse at 70 MPH.

No more GTO.  That was it.  I figured there was something terribly wrong with me.
Dumbass that I was, I made an appointment with the Chaplain ("Protestant or Catholic?")
at Mayport Navy Base to discuss the possibility that I was queer bait - or something like that.

Worse?
 
The Chaplain got my story, then told me to come back later, made an appiontment for a specific time.  I showed up
and had to sit in the waiting room.  Another sailor appeared who was obviously there to entrap me.  He was engorged
and on display.  He was groping.  He was massaging his dong right in the chair next to me.  Then he pulled it right out
and went into the bathroom.  At that point the whole thing had gone past bizarre.  I was an ignorant little country boy
from Tennessee barely out of the sunday school.  I call the Chaplain, and NOW THIS?   I left.  Next thing, I was
ordered to NAS Jax to see a military shrink.
 
The good doctor wrote a note and placed it conspicuously RIGHT ON TOP of my entire record saying that I exhibited
"ego alien sexual tendencies".  Next thing I know, the CO of my base is reading psychology books.  Hmmmm.  So he calls
me in and says he has nothing against me and likes me fine.  And I'm his best communications guy), but that he saw those
comments from the doctor and that he was bound by duty to the nation and to "GHAWD" to relieve me of my rank and my job.
 
I was required to testify before a "military board" consiting of (I forgot) about twenty people.  It was held in a gymnasium.
Right in the middle of the gym was one straight chair.  That's where I sat.  At the side, next to a wall, was a long, official-looking
table where the twenty officers sat.  We had to yell at the top of our lungs in order to be heard.  They asked me questions like,
"Do you swallow the cum or spit it out?"  (The answer was "...neither.  I'm was just trying to keep from getting screwed and it
got out of hand!")   They accused.  They insinuated.  They drew bogus conclusions.  They put words in my mouth (better than
a tongue).  etc etc  When I had been sufficiently humiliated and embarrassed, the inquiry ended with all the officers shaking
their heads (as in disbelief) and guffawing.  Obviously, they knew FAR more about me than I knew about myself.  Or so they
thought, and they were willing to do ANYTHING based on their bogus assumptions.
 
I was stripped of my rank, ordered to leave the station, re-assigned to scaping barnacles and scrubbing oil dumps (bilges)
at another base while my discharge was processed.  At that new base, everyone knew why I was there (the officials made
sure of it) and though everyone mocked and ridiculed me in public, when they got me alone, they all tried to screw me.

Yes again, officers, enlisted men, civilian employees.  It's was, as always, "Let's screw Bob!"  Then they would all get back
together in the group and begin tormenting and harrassing me again in order to prove their manhood.  They would do things
like send me out to take down the flag during a violent thunderstorm (lightning frequently struck the flag pole).  And they would
send me down into the sewer and close the lid.  Ha! Ha! HAAA!  My discharge had been ready for months, but they were
harrassing me and USING me for dirty work.  It went on for almost a year.  I complained a lot.
 
Then, one day two MPs with guns drawn came into the barracks and arrested me "for my own protection" and took me to
the Marine Brig at NAS Jax where I was imprisoned with murderers, traitors, rapists and various others of questionable character.
They all tried to screw me, too.  I'm not one to be messed with, so I told every visiting officer that I was "falsely imprisoned" and
that I would "hold you responsible, because now you know".  They all laughed derisively: Ha Ha HAAA!  One day I was going
somewhere out of the brig, assigned to scrape dog shit off of an officers foot, or something, and the chaser (a person assigned to
walk three paces behind prisoners with a billy stick during transport) was also being kicked out for being gay.  And he was being
harrassed.  I told him the story and he took me to a phone booth and gave me a dime.  I called the Legal Officer of the base and
told HIM the story.
 
I was out of the brig within fifteen minutes and my discharge was signed and completed by the end of the day.  The Commanding
Officer of my base lost a couple of stripes and a lot of money, but I was out of there.  I don't know what happened to everyone else,
but I'm assume they spent the rest of their careers screwing each other.
 
That year, the USS Rooosevelt (parked right outside my window at Mayport) had come back from a Med Cruise (Six Months
to the Mediterranean).  I heard that over one-third of the crew was discharged for homosexuality when the carrier returned home.
I understood, also, that it was routine.  Every time one of the carriers  - The Roosevelt, the Enterprise, whatever - returned from
an extended cruise back to Mayport, about 1/3 of the crew was discharged.  That's over one-thousand men, by the way.
There are several hundred Marine security folks on each carrier.  There's a saying down there: "If it weren't for the Navy,
the Marines would starve to death!"
 
The military is obsessed with sex because they do it all the time.  And that is my story which, I'm sure,
you didn't read because it is embarrassingly long and I am crazy.  Why, I ask you, wouldn't I be?
 
yours truly

Bob

(The financial idiots at DELL gave me credit.  I ordered a new computer so I can do "uppitynigger.com".)
 

Bob, I've always said a good sense of humor will get you thru anything.
You seemed to be proof of that.

Hang in there, and let me know when you get your web site going.


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