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By Rex Wockner International News Report
 There have been few problems since Britain's Navy dropped its ban
on gays in January, personnel policy head Admiral James Burnell-
Nugent told Western Daily Press on August 31.
The British military was forced to stop discharging homosexuals by a ruling of the European Court of Human Rights. "I think it has caused less of a ruffle than the issue of women at sea did 10 years ago," Burnell-Nugent said. "Although some did not welcome the change of policy, it has not caused any great degree of difficulty. "There are issues to do with sharing accommodation and so on, which we shall deal with using our normal management mechanisms," he said. "On the whole it has not caused a great upset among the services." Gay relationships are permitted on Navy ships as long as they do not affect the performance or morale of other servicemembers, a Navy spokesman said. German Military Equalizes Gays
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