In February, GLASS — or Gay, Lesbian and Supporting Sailors — met for the first time, drawing 75 people. Since then, two chapters have formed, in Ventura County, Calif., and in Hawaii. Other service members have expressed interest at bases as far away as Afghanistan, said Foster, who is working through red tape in San Diego to start a group there.
The Navy’s support for GLASS is extraordinary, advocates say, considering it follows decades in which the military banned gays from service, pretended they didn’t exist or required soldiers to stay closeted to keep their careers.
This is a great blog article about mental illness and how it’s handled not only in military personnel, but also for spouses. There is a lot of improving that needs to be done for mental illness help in the military world. And this is something that would be a good read for everyone, really.
Remember, if you or your loved one(s) is/are having any problems like this, help is available. Please, just look and try to get help, don’t give up if you run into people who don’t help, and don’t feel bad about any of it.
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This is so, so important.
“Modern war, in other words, engages all the resources, material and human, that a country possesses. The scene of battle is everywhere—in my office and my neighbor’s back yard, in field, factory, and coal mine, as well as on remote continents and sea lanes. We are all combatants. No one may stand aloof or go about his business as usual. We civilians are mobilized into an organization for war as truly as are soldiers and sailors.”
Clyde W. Hart, “Keeping The Citizen Informed in Wartime.” (Published Aug 1943)
It’s fun to stay at the…
Marketing Campaign of the Day: Gorgeous. And only in the U.K.
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Cory Huston, a Navy veteran once assigned to the Marines as a hospital corpsman, asked Marine Avarice Guerrero to marry him. It is believed to be the first proposal of marriage and engagement between two gay men – not to mention two war vets – on a US military base.
April 24, under a bright Southern California sky at Camp Pendleton’s Camp Del Mar near Oceanside, Calif., a full two hours before his boyfriend’s return from the badlands of Afghanistan, Cory Huston waited nervously. Huston, who was discharged under the former Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy, chain smoked as he rehearsed the simple proposal he would deliver when Guerrero would arrive. (San Diego LGBT Weekly)
The Cupid Shuffle - Army Edition (by littlewhitecorvette)
I can’t decide what I like most about this video…
- the fact that the guy in blue gloves is casually dancing while still carrying on his work
- how every guy who walks through knows that they need to do that move that’s said in the song while still walking.
- how they all look bewildered as to what the Charlie Brown is.
- and how into it the guy on the right is. BOOTY.
Go ahead and ask: Openly gay Nevada City man reinstated into Air Force | TheUnion.com
Anthony Loverde is pictured in front of his barracks located on Joint Base Balad, Iraq. The photo was taken in January 2011 when Loverde was employed with a private contractor.
(Story by Matthew Renda)
Nearly four years since he was honorably discharged from the Air Force for telling his commanding officer he was gay, Penn Valley native Anthony Loverde will return to military service next month.
Loverde found out Monday that his legal fight to be reinstated as a staff sergeant in the United States Air Force was over and that he would be reporting for duty May 23.
“When I came out of the closet, it wasn’t because I wanted out of the military,” Loverde wrote in a guest opinion piece to The Union earlier this year. “Believe me, I knew very well the consequences of being found out as gay, but it was important to be honest with my fellow crew members than to live in direct conflict to the U.S. Air Force core value of integrity.”
Now, Loverde is scheduled to resume his job as an electronics calibrator, a job he held even as a military contractor following his discharge.
“I’ve been beside myself all day and all night,” Loverde said. “It’s been a long journey.”
I want one.
Where can we get one?!
The legislative record of these provisions contains no rationale for providing veterans’ benefits to opposite-sex couples of veterans but not to legally married same-sex spouses of veterans. Neither the Department of Defense nor the Department of Veterans Affairs identified any justifications for that distinction that would warrant treating these provisions differently from Section 3 of DOMA.
U.S. military doctrine is pretty straightforward in situations like this: If there even appears to be an imminent threat, bomb the shit out of it.
Generation Kill, Evan Wright.
