Navy's first openly gay SEAL builds his life anew - Los Angel Tim

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Former Navy SEAL Brett Jon kept his sexualy secret while wh the ele ary un. Now he's g out to say he's gay, he says, hop of helpg others a siar posn.

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KNIV SAVE LIV: NAVY SEAL JOHN GAY

John Gay found himself a suatn durg the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu where he owed his life to the prence of his Bowie knife. * john gay navy seal *

Navy SEAL John Gay was part of the operatn to rever the crew of the helipters. As bullets were flyg, Gay valiantly rried out his missn until he was stck by an AK-47 round. However, Gay went relatively unsthed thanks to the prence of his Randall Bowie knife.

ACCINTAL 'I LOVE YOU' DERAILED GAY NAVY SEAL'S CAREER

It was this bravery, luck and valor that kept Gay fightg that day and eventually earned him a Bronze Star wh Valor Device. John Gay is still a Navy SEAL.

This was 2002, nearly a before the end of Don't Ask Don't Tell, and a time when servg openly any service as homosexual was forbidn.

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Jon said he had known he was gay sce he was 6-years-old and had jt cid to risk keepg the secret orr to serve wh one of the most ele ary forc the those three words jt about did him .

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""Brett Jon served his untry honorably, " Navy spokperson Greg Raelson told ABC News rponse to a requt for ment for this ' SEAL team quickly found out, and though Jon said the special operatns world is "ultra-mascule" and apt to pat the gay muny a negative light, actually most of his teammat were supportive. "RELATED: Gay NFL Prospect Michael Sam Gets Whe Hoe Shout-OutsJon eventually nnected wh SLDN, the associatn for actively servg LGBT ary personnel, who lled on the help of a Washgton, D. Brandon Webb, managg edor at and a former SEAL om the same Basic Unrwater Demoln/SEAL class as Jon, wrote on the webse that he had no ia Jon was gay at the time, but didn't matter.

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"And while policians and relig fanatics ma a fs about gays servg the ary, the men and women proudly served their untry silence, and earned the rpect of their peers until DADT was eventually repealed… I am proud to ll [Jon] my iend.

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