I think this is in part correct. I would be interested to see if military people will be willing to talk outside of school about issues such as de facto making queers a ‘protected class’ within the services and about interesting queer activities such as ‘wolf packing’’ and same sex male on male sexual assaults. I am particularly interested in seeing if a violent queer culture starts to emerge in the ranks that officers know is career suicide to firmly oppose and like in the RC church after certain violent queers become to public a problem just shift them to another unit. i know such things were done with blacks who were Black panther or Black Liberation Army or Black Muslim militant and violent types during the 68-71 period.
Interesting anecdote about blacks in the army (I assume) in the late 60’s time frame. Not surprising. I would see the Amercal division blacks lounging around openly in Chu Lai getting stoned in 68. Outside their hootches on the main road. No one seemed to do anything about it. I was USMC, so we just took it as the usual army routine (SNAFU). Guess it got worse after my time.
How the Marines are dealing with homos these days would be interesting to us aging VN vets. We would have to understand they were brought up through the liberal school system and have a far different starting point than we had.