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How do you feel about gays (in the closet at least) in the military? What type of challenges will they face?

if a gay guy joined the military but kept his personal preferences to himself for his civilian life, would you think it would be ok for him to be in the military? even while he is int the "closet", what type of challenges do you think he will face?

I think that anyone should be able to join. Now the reality is that there are allot of homo-phobes in the Military, especially in certain jobs. I served in the Infantry and met allot of rednecks and pecker woods and it is really how they are raised. Allot of them become Friends with black people for the first time when they join up. And unfortunately not many "enlightened" people want to sign up for the jobs in the Army that have you crawling through the mud the the pecker woods are needed. But a closet gay might not have a bad go at being in the military I wouldn't necessarily suggest making it a career because you probably would like to have an open life and the military at the present is not accepting of that.

As to the comments in here about the showers and whatnot gayness isn't catchy. If I was taking a shower next to a gay guy and he said nice package I'd say "Thanks dude".

Though most shiftworkers are focused on getting sleep, time and resources are being expended on how to keep people awake and perhaps even forgo sleep completely.

Obviously, being alert at work and while driving is critical. Fatigue and lapses in alertness greatly increase the risk of errors and accidents and these exact a huge cost in accidents and medical care. Workers, therefore, are encouraged to get quality sleep in sufficient quantities to ensure that they remain alert and safe.

In some occupations, however, the need to be alert extends beyond the usual 8 or 12 hours of a shift. International and military pilots fall into this category. Unusual efforts are made in these instances to ensure that they maintain alertness and in the case of US military pilots, amphetamine use has been endorsed. Currently, the US military is also experimenting with the possibility of staying awake for a week at a time. This is an effort to entirely overcome the body's need for sleep and the restorative effects it offers.

Is it possible that shiftworkers in more ordinary circumstances will be required to undertake the same extraordinary measures to maintain alertness? Perhaps not yet. We have not yet been able to overcome our need for sleep, as was shown by the soldiers in the Iraqi war who were subjected to long periods of sleep deprivation and who resorted to random napping to compensate. However, for the first time a drug has been approved in the United States for use in overcoming sleepiness associated with shift work sleep disorder.

This measure indicates that we are focusing our interventions away from finding the sources of the sleepiness and providing strategies to promote sleep. Instead, we are implementing strategies that simply overcome the sleepiness. Most shift workers are familiar with strategies for maintaining short term alertness, but is it advisable, in the long term, to maintain alertness through these methods? Or should getting enough sleep still be the best answer for ensuring alertness?

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