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Originally Posted by WeUse  A nurse (a Lt. jg [junior grade = second Lt. in the army]) got caught giving a guy a head job. The military did a job on her career, her personal life, and her academic status, such that she would have been lucky to get a job of switching bed pans in a west Texas (Bush country) first aide station during the grave-yard shift. I knew the lady personally! She was the cousin of the lady I was engaged to marry. I knew she had intended to make the military her career. Instead, she became a "school nurse" in a West Va. mining town of approximately 1,300 population.
What she got so severely busted on was "fratenizing with an enlisted man". She was an officer, and the poor bastard with no legs and no arms was merely a lance corporal in the USMC. |
I can assure you things have changed, at least unofficially. In the mid-90's, I was a Combat Medic (E-4, Specialist) and Amelia was a RN (O-2, First Lieutenant). Affairs between officers and enlisted were unofficially acknowledged. Nobody talked about it but everybody knew it happened.
We had to get permission from our Company Commander to get married, and the Captain asked us "So, you guys haven't been engaging in sex, right? (wink wink)". So, yeah, there ya go.
But I was also assured by my brother, who was (still is) in the Army, that such things were only tolerated in Medical for some reason...