Inside a "Don't ask, don't tell" training class

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Troops get training on end of ‘don’t ask’

“When you see these situations, think of it as two members of the opposite sex,” he told them.

He then asked a corporal what he would do if he heard two junior Marines joking in the locker room about showering in front of a gay colleague.

“It’s inappropriate in any situation, whether that Marine is homosexual, heterosexual, black, white, we’re all Marines, we’re all professionals,” the corporal said.

Bartos smiled. “You’re spot-on,” he said.

Similar sessions have been occuring on aircraft carriers and military bases, including in Iraq and Afghanistan. According to a law passed by Congress in December, the Defense Department must instruct the more than 2 million men and women in uniform about the end of the policy known as “don’t ask, don’t tell” before President Obama can officially repeal the almost 18-year ban on gays serving openly in the military.