When a man breaks into a woman's room and jumps into bed with her, people will say he is raping her. But when a man does that to another man that is accepted. Or at least that is what I head today. Supposedly this happens in the military often and is OK. The assailants are rewarded with promotions. I have been in this situation before and what the military did was not honorable. After hearing thins I think it is time for me to speak out.

The following is what happened to me and I wrote this to help myself.


14 December 1997 at 1:58am. I was in the U.S. Army then. I had joined the military the year before with dreams of serving for 20 to 30 years and retire.
On the night mentioned above, 13 men in my unit broke into my room to have their way with me. Somehow they were able to get past the double locked metal door; the deadbolt was engaged. The lock on my door operated like a hotel room. It required the key in order to be opened from the outside.
I woke to one of the men, PVT Derek Byers, trying to climb into bed with me while the rest huddled around waiting their turn. His roommate, SPC Richard Nevell, was part of this group of men whom broke into my room. I managed to escape, passing the digital clock as it changed to 1:59am, and went down stairs. As I was heading down the stairs, I heard those homosexuals rush out of my room and back to their rooms.

That night the two people on CQ were an E-1 private just out of basic training, and an E-5 Sergeant Smith. The E-1 may not have known what to do but you can be certain that SGT Smith did. I don’t know what that sergeant was thinking or why he never called the First Sergeant that night, but his lack of action just showed support for the homosexuals and everything that followed this incident. If you don’t take action against something you are being supportive. It’s like that saying: For evil to win, good people need to do nothing.

I did report this incident immediately to the night CQ. I don’t know if CQ provided them with the spare keys or if they were experts at picking locks, but it turned out that CQ never reported the incident up the chain of command. 

This incident left me constantly feeling I was in danger of another attack, certainly because locked doors were nothing to those men. Clearly the homosexuals could get past any locked door. The Uniformed Code of Military Justice, UMCJ for short, states that homosexual incidents are subject to immediate discharge from service, fine, and/or imprisonment. Additionally, the battalion commander had issued an order for all personnel to be in their assigned beds by midnight every night. Only those who were out on assignment or approved leave were not required to be in their bunks. The following month those same soldiers who broke into my room were given promotions, and PVT Byers and SPC Nevell were given commendations. Their promotions are just the opposite of any UMCJ actions.

I approached my immediate superior about this, and was promised the situation would be looked into. After several months, and not hearing anything about the situation, I was brought into the First Sergeant’s office. I informed him of the incident and the First Sergeant’s reaction was clearly one of anger.

To me it seemed that the First Sergeant was never informed about the incident and was unhappy about this going on right under his command. I do have to give him credit, after all he did make a diligent efferent in trying to get to the bottom of the incident and restore comradery to his unit. After several minutes I was taken to the Sergeant Major to repeat what had happened that night. By now it was the afternoon, and at the end of the day, I was told the incident would be looked into. After that day I had hope those soldiers would be court marshaled and I could feel safe again.

After a month my Master Sergeant called me into a private meeting. He told me that I was not allowed to go to church again and was required to join up with those men who attacked me. Further he told me that I would not be moving on in my military career until I did as he ordered. He concluded by saying “It says in the Bible that you are to follow the commands of man, and I’m telling you that you cannot go to church anymore.” At that time I did not have a very good understanding of the Bible but to me going to church was equivalent to serving and being faithful to God. I took this order in that context: that I was to forsake God and become a homosexual.

Leviticus 18:22: ‘You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.’

Romans 16:17: Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which you have learned, and avoid them.

Ephesians 5:5-7: For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them.

Here is the first amendment to the Constitution:

Amendment 1: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; of abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; of the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.