Miller didn’t know the other person was gay. His commander said Miller was the second homosexual in his company discharged in the same month. The Army gave him an honorable discharge. His platoon leader called him in, then his barracks room was turned over in search of incriminating evidence. He was at a gay bar in North Carolina when military police spotted a U.S. They wore the Red Beret and had “universal respect,” said Miller. I wanted the guys to watch my back, and I’d watch their back.”įor they were paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne, which dates back to World War II. “I danced, but that didn’t mean I enjoyed it.
“I’d go to (heterosexual) bars with the guys,” Miller said. The sergeant didn’t pursue the matter, but later in Iraq, he asked Miller if someone was in that bed. He said, ‘Miller, who’s in your bed?’ I said, ‘No one.’ The person in bed had pulled up the covers.” “I got a loud banging on my door at 3 a.m.,” he said of one incident while stationed in Fort Bragg, N.C.
