{"id":14994,"date":"2009-10-11T07:28:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T12:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14994"},"modified":"2009-10-11T07:53:28","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T12:53:28","slug":"i-didnt-tell-it-didnt-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14994","title":{"rendered":"“I didn’t tell. It didn’t matter”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent twenty years in the infantry, and although we played a lot of tricks on people, mostly of a sexual nature, I don’t think I ever saw anything that comes even close to the antics described in this morning’s Washington Post<\/a> by Joseph Roche. Based on absolutely nothing but a gut feeling I’m calling Bullshit. <\/p>\n

Shop talk in the unit revolved around sex, either the prostitute-filled parties of days past or the escapades my comrades looked forward to. They interpreted my silence and total lack of interest as an admission of homosexuality. My higher-ups seemed to think that gave them the right to bind me to chairs, ridicule me, hose me down and lock me in a feces-filled dog kennel. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, why would someone think that lack of participation in discussions about sex make someone queer? We had ordained ministers and the average “Holy Joes” who wouldn’t participate either. And we certainly didn’t spend our entire work day talking about that stuff – you run out after a while and actual work intercedes. But my NCOs certainly didn’t do any of that stuff Rocha describes.<\/p>\n

I was the decoy, and I had to do just what Chief Petty Officer Michael Toussaint ordered.<\/p>\n

In one corner of the classroom was a long sofa, turned away from the door. When you walked into the room, it appeared that one man was sitting on it, alone. But I was there too — the chief had decided that I would be down on my hands and knees, simulating oral sex. A kennel support staff member and I were supposed to pretend that we were in our bedroom and that the dogs were catching us having sex. Over and over, with each of the 32 dogs, I was forced to enact this scenario. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That makes no sense – are there sex-detection dogs in the Navy? Does the Navy use these sex-detection dogs to find Homos having sex? Can the dogs differentiate between homosexual and heterosexual sex? Do the dogs care if you’re having sex? Too many unanswered questions. <\/p>\n

I told no one about what I was living through. I feared that reporting the abuse would lead to an investigation into my sexuality. My leaders and fellow sailors were punishing me for keeping my sexuality to myself, punishing me because I wouldn’t “tell.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I was never in the Navy, but that just sounds ridiculous. I’m pretty sure the Navy has better things to do than try to get it’s members to out themselves. Rocha claims that the CNO is investigating this and I hope the results of the investigation are published because to me this sounds like a guy whose knees went weak during his Naval Academy years and bailed, now he’s looking for an excuse that makes him look good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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