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| Female sailors share US Navy's coveted first same-sex kiss |
| 2011-12-22 |
| A NAVY tradition caught up with the repeal of the US military's "don't ask, don't tell" rule yesterday when two women sailors became the first to share the coveted "first kiss" on the pier after one of them returned from 80 days at sea. Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta descended from the USS Oak Hill amphibious landing ship and shared a quick kiss in the rain with her partner, Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell. Petty Officer Gaeta, 23, wore her Navy dress uniform while Petty Officer Snell, 22, wore a black leather jacket, scarf and blue jeans. The crowd screamed and waved flags around them. "It's something new, that's for sure," Petty Officer Gaeta told reporters after the kiss. "It's nice to be able to be myself. It's been a long time coming." |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #23 More than an adventure; now an embarrassment. And how many J.O.'s got slammed for that little dust up in Vegas called Tailhook several years ago for letting willing gurls drink at the Rhino.... |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2011-12-22 21:50 |
| #22 I could be wrong, but it seems that the Navy is now asking young Ensigns to referee lover's quarrels on board ship between same sex sailors. Let the hair pulling and slapping begin! |
| Posted by: whatadeal 2011-12-22 21:09 |
| #21 Probably changed her name recently as step one in her sexyouall hairassmint losshoot. |
| Posted by: Pollyandrew 2011-12-22 18:03 |
| #20 Citlalic - if your |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-12-22 17:53 |
| #19 Citlalic .. odd name. Gotta be VERY careful how you spell it. Jus' sayin. "Why OldSpook, whatever do you mean?", he asked all wide-eyed and innocent. Maybe she is from Scunthorpe. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2011-12-22 17:40 |
| #18 > bad to the bone Euphemism? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-12-22 14:19 |
| #17 Ahemmm.....anyone hear of a turkeybaster? |
| Posted by: Glath Schwarzeneggar2126 2011-12-22 13:04 |
| #16 Probably less likely these sailors will become unavailable for duty mid-deployment due to pregnancy - a major problem with hetero-sailoresses. The problem is, the people who told us there wouldn't be any problems with integrating the military are the ones who are saying "at least the gay soldiers won't have any problem with pregnancy" now. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-12-22 12:54 |
| #15 Halsey, Nimitz, Sprague -- which one is rotating faster? |
| Posted by: Matt 2011-12-22 12:45 |
| #14 The key question---can they still level Iran? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-12-22 11:46 |
| #13 Gay, not gay....It's Non Sequitur to the Navy's mission. Enough already, they got what they wanted. Now they must rub our noses in it and we must say over and over again how much we like it. |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2011-12-22 11:33 |
| #12 As long as it weren't male sailors... That's coming, believe ,me. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2011-12-22 11:18 |
| #11 You're bad---bad to the bone, Glenmore. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-12-22 10:53 |
| #10 Probably less likely these sailors will become unavailable for duty mid-deployment due to pregnancy - a major problem with hetero-sailoresses. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-12-22 10:51 |
| #9 As long as it weren't male sailors... |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-12-22 10:50 |
| #8 Dear Lord, this Republic is well and truly F*ucked. I cannot believe how far we have descended in the last 35 years. Whatever happened to no Public Displays of Affection or Military Conduct? When the bill comes due for all this "progressiveness" it is going to be brutal. I just hope that when the sorting out starts, there is a large enough window to thin out the Left substantially. The world is on trajectory for another major world war, and when it comes this continent is going to take it in the shorts. God help us, even though we don't deserve it. |
| Posted by: Secret Asian Man 2011-12-22 10:15 |
| #7 So our Navy's mission is to make the world safe for gay kisses? I thought they were supposed to be a fighting force who's mission was to support winning wars. There are still threats in the world; there is China, Iran, Russia, North Korea to name a few. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-12-22 10:06 |
| #6 It took me quite a while to figure out the prohibited word, there. Pardon the asterisks. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-12-22 09:34 |
| #5 This had to be one of the most contrived, staged events that Navy has put on in a long time. I'm surprised they didn't have a band strike up "Anchors Away", and give both women the "public relations" and "political expediency" medals. I can see how this began. Some Rear Admiral from the USN PR office tells the Captain and CMC of the Oak Hill that two good looking actr*sses are going to be on board for a week, and that using the "Pl*yb*y M*gazine technique", both are a little pr*gn*nt, so as to look their sexi*st, and that *nobody* is to interact with them at all. They will stay in their cabin and anything they need will be brought to them personally by the CMC. The CMC is to round up some 'reliable' subordinates who will swear blind that they have been on the ship the whole deployment and are "highly professional and competent", and that the crew knows they are lesbi*ns and in a steady, committed relati*nship, and everybody is happy for them and *has not* harassed them at all about it, because everybody approves of what they are. Don't let anything go wrong with this, Captain, and it will be smiles all around. Mess this up, and there will be much pain and retirement, for making the Navy look bad and p*ssing off our social experiment overlords. Cynical much? |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-12-22 09:33 |
| #4 We'll eventually be in the same situation as Australia, with submarines without enough crew to keep them maintained well enough to leave port for.... oh, no reason whatsoever. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-12-22 09:13 |
| #3 Ok, as a knuckle dragging Neanderthal hetero male, my first thought was "Oh thank heavens they are cute. Wow." Honestly don't care what homosexuals do and am glad to see that they can just be themselves. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2011-12-22 08:51 |
| #2 Cue Village People, In The Navy,,, |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2011-12-22 04:08 |
| #1 Citlalic .. odd name. Gotta be VERY careful how you spell it. Jus' sayin. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2011-12-22 03:03 |