By Daily Mail Reporter. Military commanders have forbade any service members who are not married to each other from having sex while deployed to the combat zone. As a result, each of the covert meetings is a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
The vast majority of the posts on Craigslist involve male soldiers seeking sex with other men - a practice that could have resulted in the discharge of both parities from the military under Don't Ask Don't Tell, which barred gays in the armed forces.
Soldiers at U. The soldiers use the 'casual encounters' section of the Iraq Cragislist page. Many post sexually explicit pictures with their ads. After the policy was repealed by Congress and President Barack Obama in , the penalties for a gay rendezvous aren't as steep.
The soldiers and civilians in Afghanistan use the Iraq Craigslist page - a holdover from a time when hundreds of thousands of Americans were stationed throughout Iraq.
The 'casual encounters' section of the site features about two dozen posts a day, mostly from soldiers and civilians working with the military looking for hookups on bases and forward operating posts.
