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I told my battle buddy because he seemed like he was cool about that stuff, but he turned right around and told on me.

Yeah they said since you came out to uncle sam you can come out to your family. They pulled my file, called them, and said 'your son has something to say' then handed me the phone, told me to tell them or I'd be locked up for lying about my orientation

Lesson learned

A policy that has been recently removed, it enabled homosexual soldiers to serve in the armed forces as long as it didn't come to light you were homosexual. Now you're allowed to openly serve.

I don't generally tell people. You only know because I wanted to do an AMA but still choose to remain anonymous. My orientation doesn't define me. My family knows, the drill Sergeant made me call my mom and grandma who were listed as contacts and come out