In that space, there’s only room for one person to stand and get dressed at a time.īut it’s an all-male environment. The sum total of each bunk’s privacy is a curtain that’s six feet wide and about a foot deep. The crew of the Roosevelt sleeps in berthing areas that contain up to 200 bunks, stacked three high. But to an outsider, it still looks cramped. Sailors aboard the Roosevelt have their own bunks. On some attack submarines, for instance, some sailors must “hot bunk,” or take turns sleeping in the same bed. By Navy standards, this is one of the roomiest ships afloat. It’s just that our living quarters are a little bit tight.” Petty Officer 3rd Class Jason Long didn’t seem violently opposed to a change, but opposed nonetheless. “There’s going to be a whole lot of gay-bashing at first.” “There’s going to be a lot of hard times,” said Petty Officer 1st Class Steve Jones, wolfing down his scrambled eggs in one of the ship’s mess halls. Judging from what people are saying around ship, a lot of people are going to overreact.” “If it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.
“Don’t particularly care for it,” he said. “There’s nothing private about life around here,” said Seaman Leroy Guitterez, who opposes a change in policy. In such cramped quarters, there aren’t many secrets. Several added that verbal or physical attacks on those whose sexual identity becomes known – or even suspected – is equally certain. “The question is, if they pass it, when are they going to show themselves?” “There’s gays in the Navy now,” said Petty Officer 3rd Class Ryan Valerino, a signalman working far above the flight deck on the carrier’s island. Sailors interviewed feel that a change in the Department of Defense policy banning gays and lesbians from military service is inevitable.
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