U.S. ARMY, ARMY RESERVE AND ARMY NATIONAL GUARD, 25 YEARS OF SERVICE   JERRE, ON SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ASSAULT, AND HOW SHE MADE IT AS A WOMAN IN THE MILITARY:   I’m from a small town in western Oklahoma. My only experience with the military prior to joining is that I was married to an…

AIR FORCE VETERAN , 7 YEARS OF SERVICE   LISTEN RAMSAY, ON JOINING THE SERVICE AND A MOTHER’S PREMONITION: ON BEING THE TARGET OF A WITCH HUNT INVESTIGATION, IN OKINAWA, JAPAN: ON BEING SEXUALLY ASSAULTED, AND WHY GOING TO THE POLICE WOULD HAVE COST RAMSAY HER CAREER:   I worked in a steel mill out of high school…

NAVY VETERAN, 20 YEARS OF SERVICE DEBORAH ON BEING THE TARGET OF A WITCH HUNT INVESTIGATION:   I signed up for the U.S. Navy in 1986. By January 1987 I went to bootcamp. In just about the final week of bootcamp myself and a few other women were pulled aside and questioned for being lesbians….

AIR FORCE VETERAN   JANINE ON MOVING TO HER FIRST POST IN LOUISIANA WITH HER THEN-PARTNER, FRESH POST THE DADT REPEAL:   When I was in my senior year of high school I was realizing I was gay and I had thought that you can’t tell anybody, nobody that I know can ever know about this. So…

AIR FORCE VETERAN, 10 YEARS OF SERVICE   TERESA ON THE EQUATION OF HIDING, FEAR AND PATRIOTISM: My biological father was in the air force, I thought if he can do it, why can’t I? At the time the military was pushing good for education, good for travel and serve your country. At that time…

NAVY VETERAN,  2 YEARS OF SERVICE   PAULA, ON NAVAL INVESTIGATIVE SERVICES INFILTRATING GAY BARS IN THE 70′s, IN AN ERA WHEN ONE COULD BE DISHONORABLY DISCHARGED JUST FOR BEING IN A GAY ESTABLISHMENT:   I enlisted in 1972 and served during the Vietnam War Era. I was the first woman in the Navy to…