devote the best effort possible to required duties, respects the elements and fabric of discipline, and is at least as discreet about his affections and personal affairs as a discreet and well-conducted person would be in civilian life.

A homosexual of this character will need no special advice on how to meet impending induction. He will confine himself to answering honestly the questions asked, among which will NOT be, "Are you homosexual," -which is used, if at all, on the dead give-aways. He will look forward to meeting new friends or new lovers upon much the same basis of affinities as would prevail in his life outside the service, and, altogether, can anticipate as profitable a period of years as the military can provide. If he volunteers the information that he is homosexual, he will in all probability be disbelieved, and his statements construed as a device to escape service. As a reported case in point, two hairy, all-male homosexual workingmen in a large Eastern city were inducted simultaneously, and stated flatly to their examiners that they had been lovers for years. As eyebrows raised incredulously, they further volunteered to exhibit their mode of sexual relations on the floor. and before the entire draft board if necessary, to prove their unfitness for military duty. This unique demonstration was, of course, held impermissible, and the pair were duly inducted (so the story goes) along with everyone else.

Whatever the qualifications applying to homosexuals of use to the service, it is nevertheless true that compulsive, neurotic, and disturbed homosexuals should think twice about their prospects before joining the Armed Forces. Since such homosexuals (like their heterosexual counterparts) are insecure in themselves, and often obsessed with sex, their lot in the services is not likely

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to be a happy or constructive one, and they are not likely, for this reason, to become an asset to the service or to themselves. Incapable of strong and lasting personal attachments, and in an enviroment of continual stimulation to the homosexual nature, they will either try to endure their fate in withdrawn and silent misery, or they will become promiscuous, then careless, and then find themselves on the brink of an encounter with military law, whose actions against them could quite possibly damage their entire remaining lives. Such persons can very well, and honestly, question their own ability to adapt successfully to military lifeapart from a "gay" crowd, a "gay" bar, and the other accoutrements of the homosexual community. They should not consider shirking military duty under any pretext; but they should seek competent counsel, as recommended by their draft board, or other sources; and they should state the facts about themselves if so advised by their counsellor, and by their own conscience in the matter. The resulting 4-F classification covers not only this, but a multitude of other conditions. It is not desirable, especially if the recipient is perfectly willing (as most are) to accept military duty with the rest. But it is an easy thing to live down and explain away, compared with a dishonorable discharge a year or so later.

The homosexual who actually enters service should be advised that, quite apart from the Articles of War, there are lengthy military regulations in all branches of the service which cover every imaginable condition and circumstance relating to homosexuality and homosexual behavior. Statistics indicate that these regulations are applied with a not inconsiderable degree of effectiveness.

Under date of Feb. 17, 1959, an issue of the Air Force Times publish-