"They kick you out for HIV anyway"
Sorry to disagree, but that is a false statement. You can look up the regulations if you choose to differ. By law, the military cannot kick anyone out for HIV alone as long as the person had not been declared to have AIDS by a competent medical authority.
You are exactily right...I served for years with an HIV pos kid. A restriction placed on him that I know of, was that he couldnt apply to officer programs (why he would want to do that is beyond me anyhow..kidding)
I'm going take your word for it. I get tested all the time for HIV in the reserves and assumed that it was an admin sep. type "offense".