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Anonymous

I entered the Air Force in May 1963 and was assigned to the aviation cadet program. After 14 months of training, I graduated as a second lieutenant with navigator wings. Following some additional training, I was assigned as a navigator to a B-52 squadron.

Walt Young

When I was called up for the draft, I had some inkling that I was gay. But I decided not to claim homosexuality to get out of serving and to serve my country in the U.S. Navy. I still thought that I could deny feelings that I was gay. I still thought I could serve my country proudly, as my father and mother had done in World War II, and as my brother was doing in the U.S. Air Force at the time.

Donn B. Murphy

Every person who wants to serve our country should have those same opportunities.

Michael McEnroe

I served proudly as an Army Military Intelligence Officer on active duty for nine years. I was a strategic U.S./Korean intelligence staffer in Korea, and a tactical intelligence officer in Germany (brigade level S-2), where I was entrusted with access to nuclear codes and oversaw intelligence and security for an army installation and a nuclear weapons storage site.

Melissa Sheridan Embser-Herbert

When I was in college, I was introduced to the possibilities of military service by the lesbian service members I met at a bar in Washington, D.C. Upon graduation, I enlisted. I was on active duty in the Army, serving as a member of the military police.

John Ball Jr.

As a Marine I served under the "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" policy from September 1999 to September 2003. As a 23-year-old sergeant I was honorably discharged after serving in the Iraqi war.

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