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Scottie's Playtime 
Jackass, coward, liar, criminal…he’s so many things in one awful package.
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Hi Michael. The way they are using the military is criminal and offensive to me. I did a one year stint in the Navy wanting to make it a lifetime career and then when on my first real cruise I got so ill they had to take me off the ship by helicopter. I had terminal motion sickness. But I had such great evals I was able to move to the army without any boot camp or extra stuff. That caused a bunch of problems because I did not know what basic recruits in the army knew. I served 4 years in the army with honors and great joy, even though the times were against gay people serving. My units knew I was gay, I never hide it. I only had two sergeants who were homophobic and my command protected me from both of them.
I loved my time in and I wanted to keep going. I was a great tech in the Sat intel field. But in the last 10 months of my enlistment I had a new company commander come in who was a total Christian nationalist who despised gay people. He was not intel but a ground pounder infantry officer. As I was openly out in my unit, he offered me a choice. I leave when my contract was up …. or he would bring me up on charges and ruin me. He disregarded all my awards, and the personal pleas of my subunit to keep me because even as I was to leave I was able to get the site back on the bird. My warrant officer begged me to stay. He wanted to reenlist me right then, even if it was only into the IRR. I asked if he or any of them could protect me from the threats of a Christian Nationalist commander who felt being gay was a dishonorable discharge and they admitted they couldn’t. So I left a military career that I was really good at due to bigotry. Like I said standing there in civilian clothing saying my goodbyes the site went down. I was the only one standing there that remembered the crypto units did not auto reconnect due to security reasons. I was yelling out what to do to get us back on the bird while I reinitialized the units. While others were clueless. But being gay made me somehow not a good tech or a fit army person. Hugs
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