Thank you for your Service Gunnery Sergeant, glad you made it home. USAF Vet, early-mid 70s. Back then if you were queer you were booted, if you were male. If you were female they just put you on the lesbian floor of the WAF dorm and ignored it. That was SAC, other outfits mighta done it differently, not sure, SAC was a bit different it seems.  When I first got to my Duty Station our Missile Wing had a parade for change of command scheduled, we had to practice marching because USAF and none of the senior sergeants remembered how to issue commands. My First Shirt was new to SAC, he had two tours at Da Nang behind him, hadn't been back in CONUS long. So a couple of us FNGs were trying to help him remember commands, he got flustered trying to get us to parade rest and fall out and would just say 'Mill Around Harch!' We had some of the first females to Serve in our squadron, one old timer Staff sergeant would get on the PA in the squadron area and announce that one of the females was having trouble picking up her tool box and could someone please help her get her box on the truck, stuff like that. They were all reassigned, none of them stayed with their original jobs, could not hack it and we didn't want them there, in the way.