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Obligatory crayon joke

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From now on, this Padlet will become based around Marine Corps other than SEAL. Semper Fi.

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The Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity (SOGD) committee wants to highlight a piece of LGBT Military History. The SOGD committee challenges you to take the time to read each of these excerpt from LGBT Military history and attempt to complete the challenges. Our goal is to give each of you some encouraging nuggets ingrained throughout LGBT Military history.

Kristin Beck served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy SEALs. She took part in 13 deployments, including seven combat deployments. She served with SEAL Team 1. She was a member of the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group (also known as DEVGRU), a special counter-terrorism unit popularly called SEAL Team Six, and received multiple military awards and decorations, including a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. Beck retired from the Navy in 2011 with a final rating as Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator.

After her retirement, Kristin began her transition process. Public coming out in 2013, she received several messages of support from her former military colleagues. Kristin's stated that looking back her one regret is not coming out during her military career because "No one ever met the real me." Kristin became an advocate for transgender service members by bringing to light that while the "don't ask, don't tell" policy was repealed in 2011, the ban on openly transgender people serving in the U.S. armed forces remained. To further aid transgender individuals across the country Kristin co-wrote Warrior Princess. A publication integrating many of Kristin's coping mechanisms that she used while on the SEALs and applying them to living as a gender diverse Veteran.

Beck quotes in her book: "I do not believe a soul has a gender, but my new path is making my soul complete and happy...I hope my journey sheds some light on the human experience." Kristin Beck has made a huge difference in the lives of Transgender service members everywhere. For this final week of LGBT History Month, I challenge you to reflect on all the stories and journeys expressed throughout this month and take some time to feel PRIDE in the work we do.

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A Blast From the Past - Kristin Beck - PrideVA

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The Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity (SOGD) committee wants to highlight a piece of LGBT Military History. The SOGD committee challenges you to take the time to read each of these excerpt from LGBT Military history and attempt to complete the challenges. Our goal is to give each of you some encouraging nuggets ingrained throughout LGBT Military history.

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A Blast From the Past – Brett Jones - PrideVA

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The Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity (SOGD) committee wants to highlight a piece of LGBT Military History. The SOGD committee challenges you to take the time to read each of these excerpt from LGBT Military history and attempt to complete the challenges. Our goal is to give each of you some e…

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A cool naval museum in my hometown. I don´t get there often but it´s cool just to know it´s there.

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Do you have what it takes to become a Navy SEAL? Intense training and incredible opportunities await those who make the cut. Learn more about requirements.

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More Cairo :) Rest in peace, hero dog.

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Cairo, the dog who worked in Operation Neptune Spear to take down Bin Laden.

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The history behind the nation anthem is really interesting and beautiful, I´d recommend looking it up at some point.

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Respect to SWCC, aren´t talked about much.

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Navy´s first openly gay SEAL ( Brett Jones ))

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Navy´s first openly gay SEAL ( Brett Jones ))

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Go Navy🇺🇸🏳‍🌈

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boat

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haha funny boats go brrrrrr

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The US Navy is statistically the gayest US military branch!! I am also a queer person!

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Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)

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Sadly you can´t just jump to BUD/S

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A really great book based on, obviously, a true story. One of my favorites, would honestly rank it above American Sniper.