Meet the first out trans soldier in the U.S. Military

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Meet the first out trans soldier in the U.S. Military



http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2015/04/10/meet-first-out-trans-soldier-us-military

Advocate/by Sunnivie Brydum   04/10/2015

" Army Sgt. Shane Ortega served three combat tours, according to a Thursday profile in the Washington Post:" two in Iraq, one in Afghanistan. Two as a Marine and one in the army. Two as a woman and one as a man." Sgt. Ortega is currently stationed at Wheeler Airfield in Oahu, Hawaii, where he serves as a helicopter crew chief in the Army's 25th Infantry  Division. The transgender man-who was assigned female at birth and therefore initially enlisted as such-began his transition to male four years ago, under the supervision of military and civilian doctors, the Post report. "