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From: dmason@ecs.umass.edu
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Subject: Being gay dosen't mean they won't grab you (was RE: avoiding draft by b
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Date: 20 Dec 90 01:46:30 GMT
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From: dmason@ecs.umass.edu
In article <1990Dec7.011900.1441@cbnews.att.com> PAISLEY%auvm.auvm.edu@VM1.gatech.edu writes:
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+Since the US Armed Forces do not accept homosexuals into its ranks, claiming
+to be gay may become a much-used method of avoiding the draft (should it
+be re-instituted).  Does anyone know how the military would screen draftees
+who claimed to be gay?  

    I saw on Oprah, a couple months back, four people who were drafted into the
Army during Vietnam. At the time of drafting, they each said that they were
gay,because they actually were. The Army took them anyway, and now twenty years
later, just as each was about to retire, the Army kicked them out for being
gay, because that is what it said on their enlistment papers.

Don Mason
University of Massachusetts
Amherst,Ma
"Pick up your weapon and follow me! I am the INFANTRY!"