I read it as his fellow soldiers were engaging in horseplay - threatening to shoot him in the head with his service pistol - from the reading of the charges probably “jokingly.” A round inadvertently goes off and he’s dead.
Not sure why everyone is fixating on a possible gay angle. If he were gay that angle would have been played up. It’s more likely the case that cause of all this was lowlife criminals who acted accordingly.
Didn’t read those details. Definitely changes everything if so.
Idiots should have taken an NRA firearms safety course, because apparently the military isn't teaching that to them like it should. Don't point your gun at anything you do not intend to kill, horseplay or not.