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b'At first glance, you may think me the inveterate bon vivant (which I am) and not the man in camouflage who can command troops and hit a target five hundred yards away with an M16 (which I can do).

Back when I was a skinny, insecure eighteen-year-old, I enlisted in (um, I cheated to pass the physical) the pre-DADT United States Marine Corps. To be honest, I had no idea what I was doing joining the toughest branch of our armed forces. I even lied on the enlistment papers about my sexuality. I had to; being gay in the military was illegal. Out was not in.'