military aid program somewhere, and figures into the large monetary dole which the Nationalists have received annually from the U.S. Treasury for a good many years.

New subject: Pregnancy. The Honolulu newspapers in July carried a feature article: "Heartbreaking Legacy of War: Japan's Mixed-Blood Babies," indicating that some 10,000 GI babies of Eurasian or Afro-Asian parentage had been abandoned by their American military fathers. Being both illegitimate and "different," these children have now reached an age where the Japanese officials are forced to admit that they constitute a social problem, and face an uncertain future in Japan. Many live in poverty, No easy solution is suggested, although some few adoptions have been made. Since the Japanese girls are very knowledgeable about preventing conception usually, for 10,000 pregnancies to have taken place, a corresponding figure of 10,000,000 acts of fornication would not be extreme. This gives us a rough gauge to the extent of participation in sexual acts between Japanese girls and American military personnel. Apart from, this incidence of activity, the fact that these children are now recognized as a tragic social problem in Japan, again raises the question: If the Department of Defense is to be the final arbiter of all morality, why has it not come forward with humane policies to counteract the misery perpetrated by its personnel? The simple explanation is, of course, that it is too confused on the whole subject to be able to do anything constructive, so it does nothing.

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For pregnancy of another sort in another part of the world: It has been reported to me reliably that in one American military unit, at least, a minimum of 50% of the commissioned U.S. military nurses in Germany experience at least one pregnancy during their tour of duty there. These pregnancies are, of course, aborted by German physicians. Whether knowledge of these ever come to the attention of ranking military personnel I cannot say, but it is a topic of conversation among members of the Nurse Corps itself, one of whom was my informant.

So far, we have confined our attention pretty much to expressions of het erosexual conduct among members of the military forces, now let's look at the other side of the coin, to see what evidence of homosexual activity we can find.

Our first index will be lavatory hieroglyphics. These have been vastly under-rated, in my opinion, as indices of sociological change. Considering that they are always spontaneous expressions, unforced and uncoerced, of deeply felt personal urges and wants, I am inclined to put great emphasis upon them as valid barometers of prevailing sexual mores. At this point in my research, I can only report preliminary observations, with the hope that

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more can be done in this field later. Taking selected male, exclusively military facilities in Hawaii, Japan, and Okinawa, and two male, combined military-civilian billeting facilities in Hawaii and California, here are the results:

Homosexual-Heterosexual Représentations Depicted

Multi-service military facility

90% homosexual

Combined military-civilian billeting facility

100% homosexual

95% homosexual

U.S. Army single-service facility

U.S. Navy single-service shore facility

U.S. Navy floating facility

U.S. Marine Corps single-service facility U.S. Air Force single-service facility

65% homosexual

0 (no hieroglyphics) 0 (no hieroglyphics) 90% homosexual

Now, compare the foregoing observations with the second index: composite estimates of percentage of participation by male military personnel in multiple homosexual experiences, by individual military branch. These estimates have been developed by interviewing approximately 1,000 non-militery homosexual males who have had contact with male military personnel, and approximately 1,000 male military personnel as to the incidence of their own participation in homosexual experiences. The sample here was nation-wide, composed primarily of enlisted men in the lower three pay grades, with less than 5% of the sample representing higher non-commissioned and commissioned officer personnel. Note should be made also that the numerical weight of the sample tends heavily toward the Marine Corps and Navy subjects:

Percentage of Participation in Multiple Homosexual Experiences U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Navy

85% 70%

U.S. Army 60% U.S. Air Force 50%

You will notice no immediate correlation between the incidence of lavatory depictions and the percentage of overt participation in homosexual activities, unless one concludes that personnel of the Marine Corps have no need to decorate lavatory walls since all sexual repressions are disposed of by overt participation. And in like vein, one could conclude that personnel of the Navy believe both in advertising and participating. These are very unscientific conclusions, as you will appreciate; the conclusion I hope you will draw from this particular presentation is that the incidence of homosexual activity (both fantasy and real) is significantly higher among lower-rank military personnel than has been before recognized in public. And now, a final index, admittedly a limited one, but indicative of a trend, I believe. U.S. Army military facilities in Hawaii have suffered