When I was in the military (before DADT) I served with a few gays. Good guys, all of them, and good sailors. I had a gay corpsman cut a chunk of mangled arm off me and sew it up really well.
However, none of these guys put their sexuality out in the open. I liked to think of it as “don’t care, don’t tell.”. I’m more than a little worried that now there going to be gay pride parades on military bases. Seriously.
Yup, the problem is that now that it’s codified as fine and in the open, the force of law will say that you cannot discriminate. This will be a disaster, I predict. And we will all pay for it. My one wish is that those who celebrate it will be the ones who will take the brunt, but of course that never seems to be the way it works out.
About when did you serve? In 1961 I was in Korea. One of the sergeants made a move on one of the men at some party in the evening (guess he was drunk and let his guard down). The next day he was on a plane bound for the States and a discharge.
That's how the Army handled things then. I guess if this happens in the New Army the ol' sarge and his honey will be given lodging at the nearest motel.