vqlume - jack fritscher

“if a man does not keep pacewith his companions. perhaps ifis because he hears a differentdrummer. Let him step to themusic which he hears. howevermeasured or far away."

Henry David Thoreau

4 COMPOUND TRAINING OUTTAKESOur new recruit gets a tip or two from the Di.

10 ARMY vs NAVY by EtienneA group of army Cl's break into the naval academy and gang upon their football star.

15 LEATHER REPORTAll the news that's fit to print, and some that isn't.

18 DRUMMER FORUM20 MALECALL

We can hardly let a military issue go bywithout some sort of blast at our belovedmilitary institutions themselves. Gaymales love to dress up like, or be subju-gated by, their worst enemies; thereforei the popularity of police uniforms, Naziuniforms and military regalia.

The old guard of the military doesn'tlike gays anymore than it likes civiliancontrol, liberals, congressional investiga-tions or peaceniks. It didn't used to likeblacks or Asians but it can't openly getaway with too much of that anymore.However, aided and abetted by the pres-ent administration, it wants no homosex-uals and has cold-bloodedly persecutedand prosecuted men with unblemishedrecords, even heroes, because someoneheard a rumor that they might be thatway.

22 DRUMMER DADDIESTaU tales with a new twist for daddies’ boys.

26 DRUMSTICKS27 PRIVATE KIROWSKY by lack Prescott

A moving tale of leather love at a military academy bythe masterof such tale-telling.

THERE ARE NO GAYS ANDTHERE IS NO AIDS IN THE

U.S. MILITARYU.S. Secretary of Bullshit

36 THE IOYS OE THE PITS by T. R. WitomskiThe Drummer Fetish Parade marches on and we salute the furry,fun, wet, warm and wonderful pit fanciers.

47 1986 UNIFORM CALENDAROur tradition continues as Bill Ward's incredible artworkbecomes a calendar to pin up and live by.

SS DEAR SIR!Start the new year right with a man from our bigger-than-everclassified department.

75 DRUMMEDIA/MOVIESFrom /aolitics to polka. Drummer's rundown on what's new onthe si ver screen.

78 DRUMMEDIA/VIDEOA glimpse at three new video releases to titilate you.

82 1985 CAlENDAR REVIEWWhat's new in male calendars? Clad you asked us.

87 DRUM by Bill Ward90 SERGEANT SWANN'S SONG OE SAFE SEX

How to enjoy yourself, shown to us by some private-first-classshots of the sergeant.

92 TOUGH CUSTOMERSA fresh round of rowdy rogues you can write to.

94 DEAR MOMLetters home by some young servicemen caught with their pantsdown by Seabag Studios.

98 IN PASSINGTry explaining this one to mother.

Cover: Sergeant Swann, courtesy of Seabag Studios.Opposite Page: Mike Arlen photographs military discipline.

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Now along comes AIDS and the Pen-tagon has jumped in with both feet. Eve-ryone is to be tested for it. With anopportunity of this magnitude to lead theway for the rest of the country, the mil-itary has taken a stance that would havebeen admired by Attila the Hun.

There are things that the military doesadmire mightily, however: separationand duplication of its branches, theincredible pork-barreling and ineffi-ciency of the military-industrial complexand the waste of billions of dollars, mil-lions of man hours and thousands of oth-erwise excellent, talented and dedicatedmen who happen to prefer men.

The armed services lie about thenumbers of gays on their rolls. The per-centage is higher than for the civilianpopulation. The incidence of AIDS has tobe proportionately higher as well. Butinstead of leading the way for research, itprefers to stonewall it.

A friend of ours, a retired colonel, diedrecently of AIDS in a VA hospital. It tookover three months to get him in. Theirdoctors told him he merely had a low-grade infection. Then, when he becametoo ill to stay home and was forced uponthem, a needless biopsy collapsed a lungand hastened his death. It is time theylearned what the characteristics of thedisease are and how to treat them as wellas civilian medical centers do.

And it is time to stop pumping all thatmoney into obsolete bombers, MX sys-tems and tanks that run out of gas beforethey can get to battle. Instead of worryingabout "Star Wars," it is about time forthem to bring their organizations into thetwentieth century.

john H. EmbryDRUMMER J