The Army.

[ThickAndCreamy]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but I couldn't really find any other thread to put it in so.

For the past few months I've been training and sorting myself out to join the Signals in the Army. I'm proper dedicated to the idea, I have all my qualifications, I've passed my recent tests and interviews thus far so I'm doing pretty well with the process.

But my main worry is my sexuality. You hear stories about the mess halls and shit, so I was wandering if anyone had any idea about how homosexual's are treated in the Armed Force's. I mean, I'm not gonna run around trying to fuck every guy I see, I'll keep it to myself; but I know the whole environment is different and if I were found out...

Just need your advice and/or idea's. Nothing will put me off signing up, I just want to know what I might need to prepare for in terms of the way I'm treated.

 

[Rolyo85]

DADT has been repealed. It all depends on how open you want to be, and what people you are there with.

 

[Lefty]

Roly old boy,

DADT was an American Issue. T&C is a Brit. Check his avatar and
then see how his sentences are structured and terms he uses.
From trying to join the Signals in the Army, or the reference to him
'Training and sorting myself out'...
P'raps it's best to leave this one to our U.K. contingency.

Good of you to try though.

 

[chub23lauderdale]

i think he is form England so DADT would not apply to him maybe this will be helpful Sexual orientation and military service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Rolyo85]

Roly old boy,

DADT was an American Issue. T&C is a Brit. Check his avatar and
then see how his sentences are structured and terms he uses.
From trying to join the Signals in the Army, or the reference to him
'Training and sorting myself out'...
P'raps it's best to leave this one to our U.K. contingency.

Good of you to try though.

I'm not American, or a native English speaker. Most of these things wouldn't really tell me anything. I should have guessed by the use of "proper" though.

Or... yunno, that it says "England" in his location. Oops.

 

[Lefty]

I'm not American, or a native English speaker. Most of these things wouldn't really tell me anything. I should have guessed by the use of "proper" though.

Or... yunno, that it says "England" in his location. Oops.

Roly, I took the proper precautions, researched your home page
(and the blog you suggest viewing that does not exist). I had no
way of ascertaining you an 'English as a second language' person.

My admiration for people using a non-native language is huge.Since
I wasn't familiar with you I checked and the dearth of information
coupled with your use of English had me drawing the conclusion you
were, American and had at least completed 8th grade...LOL...

Might note somewhere about the 2nd language skills and challenges.
Best regards, and just sign me as

Barely literate in just California English Lefty.

BTW, where from...what major? Yeah, nosy fycking Americans...

 

[Rolyo85]

Which blog doesn't exist? The one in my signature does. Just tried it.

And Bulgaria. Violin performance

 

[blublud]

Sending all my best wishes to Roly for success in his wonderful career choice.

At one time, I was a music major in college, in Ohio, but never followed up on it.

Apologies to the OP for hijacking his thread.

 

[Lefty]

My bad,

Most people refer to their home page blog unless ID'd differently. No biggie.

Evidently we have a fairly large population here in the north valley. Found
this ...Sacramento has a large Croatian cultural center at 3730 Auburn Blvd. For
information, see the website, Croatian-American ...
www.examiner.com/article/...bulgarian-genealogy-sacramento - Cached ...
and its only 15=/- miles. away, learning experience. Violin?...sadly, I
never had the attention span to learn...
Okay, thread back to the poor bloke that started it.



a trained pianist...recitals and all that...

 

[Audio Tech]

Having been in the USAF myself, I found you don't really have TIME to think about your sexuality. At least not during basic training.
And what you do off base on your own time is nobody's business anyway. So why worry about it?

 

[ThickAndCreamy]

I guess, thank you to Audio Tech, and the other's for making a somewhat interesting thread of this.

But yeah, I wasn't planning on being too open about my sexuality, no-one really needs to know how I like it under the covers.

 

[TX-Beau]

Hmmmmm. Well, I don't know about England, but over here, in that kind of environment the consequences for being upfront are far less serious than the consequences for being suspected or found out.

 

[MrLion]

I am from the UK and i have some friends that are in the army and the stories ive heard say that people wouldnt really ask about your sexuality. although he says that gay jokes are tossed around ALOT. dont try to get too worked up about them and people probably wont suspect a thing.
Good luck in your career choice. Have fun.

 

[hanzosword]

I don't know how things are in England but I think I read somewhere that people can be openly gay so I would think most soldiers there won't care too much. In America I haven't seen any blatant homophobia since I've been in the army reserves. I'm not out either but there are some females in my unit that were openly gay even before DADT was repealed here and nobody really cares. I think as long as you're not trying to feel up on all the straight guys you'll be okay lol.

 

[Ganoderma]

hi OP,

You might already have read British Army joins up to Stonewall workplace scheme - PinkNews.co.uk (way back in 2008, I tend to think that things will have been changed, but in a positive way).

Another quote from pinknews.uk: Gay and lesbian military personnel are allowed to march in Pride parades in the UK in uniform.

I would not bother too much. Don't ly about girls / girlfriends, and be firm about things you like, and things you don't like.

Best wishes