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Accidental 'I Love You' Derailed Gay Navy SEAL's Career
Feb. 14, 2014 — -- Decorated Navy SEAL Brett Jones had already survived two harrowing deployments overseas when, back in the states, his world came crashing down around him, all thanks to an answering machine.
It was the morning after a welcome back party, and Jones was calling to thank a fellow Navy serviceman who organized the bash. The bloke wasn't in, so Jones left him a message at his military office, and then he did something without thinking about it.
"I said, 'I affection you' before I hung up," Jones told ABC News, recounting the story by email.
The male Jones had called was his longtime boyfriend and part of an entire life Jones had for years kept hidden from even his closest SEAL comrades and, even more importantly at the time, the Navy. This was 2002, nearly a decade before the end of Don't Ask Don't Relate, and a age when serving openly in any service as homosexual was forbidden. Jones said he had acknowledged he was male lover since he was 6-years-old and had just decided to risk keeping the secret in direct to serve with one of the most elite military forces in the world.
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This man does NOT like Jocko...
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I started the video this morning to be loyal, but decided to keep my mouth shut given my previous criticism of NSW. Luttrell's pushback has flown under the radar so far and now folks are pushing back on Jocko. My Bagram to-go tray take is there are truths and there is the cult of Jocko/ Luttrell. At some point this topic will explode up and not just here on Shadowspear.
As I've posted before, we've placed veterans on pedestals for too long and that bill will reach due at some point.Click to expand...
I have this condition, and there's no medication for it except bourbon. I call out bullshit. I acquire a love affair for SOF, fighter pilots, astronauts, and elevator repairmen (mad skills and form huge $). But there should be no sacred cows. If a person, people, a organization, a community, fuck up, then choose to double-down on it, they be entitled to what they acquire, they deserve to get outed, they deserve to be knocked off those pedestals. I acquire nothing for them.
Social media is seeing more and more folks like the former SEAL in the video activity the BS, and the guys living in the glass houses are starting to get panes cr
Gay CIA Contractor Claims Deadly Harassment in War Zone
— -- He spent 13 years on secret missions around the world for the CIA, but when former Navy SEAL Brett Jones looked into his cell phone camera and pressed “record” earlier this month, he was scared.
“The reason I’m making this is, in the event that something happens to me, there’s evidence I’m in Afghanistan working as a contractor for the CIA,” he says adv in the shaky video, stealing glances around him. “I don’t feel it’s very safe for me to be here. I don’t feel like I can work with these guys.”
In one of the most dangerous places on the planet, Jones wasn’t afraid of the hundreds of militants eager to kill anyone associated with the CIA, he was afraid of his retain men – afraid of being the victim of an “accident” downrange – or afraid of creature left behind if a mission went bad.
Jones, the only contractor with the CIA’s paramilitary Global Response Staff (GRS) who has come out publicly as gay, said that what had him so terrified was a disturbing pattern of harassment he had suffered and the homophobic, racist and sexist habit he had seen from his own teammates – both contractors and CIA officials.
Brett Jones: First Openly Gay Navy SEAL Slams Trump’s Bigotry
Brett Jones served as a Navy SEAL during ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’. He was forcefully outed, and was subjected to an interrogation and investigation about his sexuality. He fought back, and was given the opportunity to proceed to serve as a SEAL, but he left in anxiety of further discrimination.
Brett continued to serve in the CIA, but was the victim of brutal harassment. He’s spent the last three years as a police officer in Alabama, where he lives with his husband and son.
In Pride: The Story of the First Openly Gay Navy SEAL, Brett tells his existence story, from being kicked out of his house for existence gay, to the intense Navy SEAL training, to almost creature ousted from the SEALs.
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