A NCO I had them in my platoons and companies. I never had any problems, but then I looked at it as "different strokes for different folks".

I read a story not to long ago about a platoon with a gay medic. Everybody knew he was gay, they didn't care. He would run through the fires of hell to get one of them out of trouble.

In the end I suspect, that is all any soldier, airman, sailor or marine really cares about.

Gay Linguists Get The Boot

Morons.

The rationale, apparently, was that, since gays were not allowed in the military and homosexual acts were subject to court martial, a closeted gay was subject to blackmail by the enemy.

Which perfectly high lights the stupidity that sometimes passes for "rational" thought on the part of people in government.

The way to solve the above problem was not to ask embarassing questions about a person's sexuality, but to remove the ban gays serving in the military. In fact, encouraging soldiers, especially ones working with classified materials to come out of the closet would go even further to remove this kind of an issue.

I believe it was in Charles Stross's Atrocity Archives where two of the supporting characters, who were gay and lovers, were mandated to go to the Gay Pride Parade as a job requirement so that they could retain their security clearances.

"no ... but we're willing to learn"