Phillip Leveque has spent his life as a Combat Infantryman, Physician, Toxicologist and Pharmacologist.
(MOLALLA, Ore.) - My article about Army Homosexuals stirred up a firestorm comparable to Vesuvius or maybe Mt. St. Helens. At any rate, it got completely out of hand with 39 pages of comments of all sorts including knife fights. I was just trying to make a philosophical point.
After reading all of it, I am partially convinced that if my Army private buddies thought I was queer because I didn't smoke cigarettes probably my sergeant and lieutenant thought so also and tried to get me killed by putting me on the attacking point several days running and ordered me out into "no man's land" for a couple of hours looking for footprints of two of my section who had been captured.
In both situations it was a miracle that I survived. Either would normally have been lethal.
My article also provoked anti-semitic remarks, Biblical and Torah references. I'm sure every race has homosexuals. In some ethnic groups, the old men marry or seize all of the young women leaving none for the young men. Some Fundamentalist Mormons have many wives. Muslims can have four wives and a deck of concubines.
Maasai chiefs have several wives and dozens of children.
If somebody calls the above aberrant or or normal, I don't care. It is factual.
As to homosexuals in the armed services, they have always been there, the Spartans, possibly the most renowned warriors ever known, were presumably ALL homosexuals. Any current serviceman or woman will tell you that there are homosexuals in the armed services now.
Whether priest pedophiles are homosexuals is another question. Most of their targets were boys but certainly girls were certainly just as available.
The percentage of homosexuals in population is up for grabs. Soldiers and Marines in battle units form bonds almost as tight as marriage. A front line fighter in a foxhole or on the attack better trust his buddy. His life depends on it. Is there a stronger bond? Probably only in marriage! I don;t know if homosexuality implicitly includes sexual activity.
Even some male-female marriages are without sex relations. This is probably unusual bit is is also a fact.
As to the crap about homosexuals preventing unit cohesiveness, what a load! There are dozens of reasons for the lack of cohesiveness. One of the most common was arrogant and ignorant sergeants and lieutenants. The didn't call the latter "90 Day Wonders" without reason. Many WWII sergeants were illiterate. They found a home in the Army before the war started. I'm just getting started, there will be more.
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