Gay Like Me: A U.S. Navy Personnel Manager Confides in You

A U.S. Navy Personnel Manager Confides in You

This is not just a war story-it is a war diary. Written in real time during a six-month deployment aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ranger during Operation Desert Storm, this vivid and unfiltered account comes directly from the heart of Fighter Squadron One, "The World-Famous Fighting Wolfpack."

As a Navy Personnel manager at the epicenter of daily command tensions, the author reveals the internal pressures that came not only from combat operations, but from the unspoken war within-being a gay man in uniform before Don't Ask, Don't Tell. What begins as a faithful record of squadron life under stress builds into a powerful, intimate documentation of sexual harassment, peer conflict, and the abrupt collapse of a career that had been marked by exemplary service.

More than a military memoir, Gay in the Military is a unique primary source-detailed, reflective, and painfully honest. It opens the hatch on the hidden cost of silence, and the high price paid for speaking out.