This past August the U.S. Department of the Navy quietly updated its policy, which now allows HIV-positive Sailors and Marines to take overseas assignments and serve on select large ship platforms.

The move was so quiet, in fact, that it's just become known to the public. 

Prior to the policy change, HIV-positive servicemembers were forbidden from stepping foot on foreign soil, including during peace time and in non-combat zones. 

More after the jump. 

The United States military has not erupted into a non-stop gay Bacchanalian orgy since repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," despite some early concerns from anti-gay officials. A new report from the Palm Center, the first scholarly effort to study the post-DAD military, paints quite the different picture, in fact.

Navy Vet Cory Huston and Marine Avarice Guerrero will remember Southern California's Camp Pendleton as the spot they became engaged. The military and history will remember it as the first place a marriage proposal was popped from one veteran boyfriend to another. Details follow. 

Though many believe it's a modern day unwavering symbol of American values that deserves a place on military bases as soldiers see fit, reports now indicate that the United States has launched an investigation into the raising of the Pride flag at an Afghanistan outpost. 

While a U.S. military base in Afghanistan has already celebrated gay pride in a photo applauded around the world this week, here at home military academies are for the first time able to let their students do the same. Six months after the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," military schools are hosting historic Pride Week events in a first for the United States.

Six months after the official end of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," and the LGBT presence in the U.S. military is unmistakable. In Afghanistan—the domain of an American Mstr. Sgt. who found himself "disgusted" with the homecoming pics of same-sex couples —a new symbol of American Pride is raised.