The Pink Beret

The house remixes of Madonna, Britney and Kylie; the pop divas are thumping over the airwaves. You're on a night out with your friends after five hard days in camp. You're high on long island tea and exchanging the latest gossip with your pals when you spot him from the corner of your eye. The alcohol is rushing through your system and your friends dare to you to make a move. You get up and snake across the dance floor, catching his attention with your sexy dance moves. You see a response and you move in for the kill. He is sitting in a dim dark corner. You move up to him and your eye meet. Immediately an electric shock hits your body sobering you up. "Sir. WhaWhat are you doing here?"

You find out that your commander in the army is gay. What are the odds? Not very high let me tell you but the question is what are you going to do? It all starts way back when one day you had to haul your heavy ass down to that building for a compulsory routine medical check up before you enlist. You arrive there at the crack of dawn and you still got to wait. Finally in the end after all the tests have been done you sit down with the good doctor for some finally question.

"So do you have any medical history?"
"No."
"Do any of your family members have any medical problems?"
"No."
"Do you have any drug allergies?"
"No."
"Alright then, do you have any mental issues i.e.: homosexuality?"
"No."

Liar. I know that the whole time you were answering those questions you were thinking about the cute guy at the blood testing counter. So how's a boy like him going to survive in the army? Well let me tell you girl it is a sad but true fact that if you expose yourself now as who you are what they are going to do is send you to counseling and then downgrade you and I know this for a fact because I have heard first hand experience but is it really necessary to do so? Can gay people serve the army?

My answer to you is yes. The army is all about results, nothing but results. If you can perform your duties and show them that you put in effort into what you do to get them what they want, it should not be a problem right? Why should sexuality play a part in performance? In fact it doesn't, you can be gay but still do all the things that the rest of these heterosexual army boys can do and maybe even better. Still in order to prove your point you will have to make it a physical one. Yes I know it is sad and crude but it works. Unless you beat these boys at

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