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A long the gay grapevine, the USS Belleau Wood was known to be a particularly rough berth. Seaman Allen Schindler was miserable after his transfer to the amphibious assault ship in December Under contract for five months, the singer and dancer figured that his stint in Sasebo would provide him with plenty of good stories to tell back home in Irvine. Slashed and beaten beyond recognition Oct. 
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The Belleau Wood, an amphibious assault ship that carries nearly 1, men, is one of them. The quarters are tight, and sailors sleep in bunks stacked three high. Schindler is the Chicago Heights, Ill. To the gay community, he is a hero.
Life And Death Of Gay Sailor
Crew Calls Gay Sailor’s Killing Isolated Incident: Military: As Belleau Wood returns to home port in Japan for first time since beating, some seamen say a couple of ‘rednecks’--not the. Thus far the Navy has said that only two men were involved in the assault that has stirred controversy over whether the Navy tolerates harassment of gay sailors on its ships. One of the men, Navy Airman Charles Vins, was given a bad conduct discharge in November and a one-year jail term after he pleaded guilty to lesser charges. 
Crew Calls Gay Sailor's Killing Isolated Incident
Once on board the Belleau Wood, Schindler heard a story that a young gay sailor had been burned after someone poured lighter fluid on him and lit it because of his sexual orientation. Seaman Allen Schindler was miserable after his transfer to the amphibious assault ship in December He began writing unhappy letters to his family in Illinois and to friends in San Diego, Calif, his home port before heading out to Sasebo naval base in Japan last September.
2 Recall Lonely, Gay Sailor Who ‘Came Out,’ Was Slain
Navy officials in Japan said that Seaman Allen R. Schindler, 22, may have been a victim of gay-bashing, killed by a fellow sailor assigned to the Belleau Wood, an amphibious assault ship whose. SASEBO, Japan — For a Navy that was not supposed to have gay sailors, the subject of homosexuality has an unusual familiarity in this otherwise quiet family community of 3, Americans at the Navy base here. But in the aftermath of the killing of a self-acknowledged gay sailor Oct. Family Probes Death of Gay Sailor
A sailor who was stationed on the USS Belleau Wood last October has contradicted a key element in the Navy’s account of how Allen Schindler, a gay sailor from Chicago Heights, was brutally. . 
A Grisly Murder Mystery
Man sentenced to life in prison for murder of gay sailor recommended for parole Family of Allen Schindler organizes campaign opposing release More Posts. .
Navy admits gay sailor killed
December from his dream ship - the historic Midway aircraft carrier that was being moth-balled in Washington state - to the smaller Belleau Wood, an amphibious assault. .