So I was in the Marine Corps Reserves before going active Air Force after college. So imagine me, 18 years old and showing up for one of my first weekend drills at my USMC infantry unit.

I don't remember what we were doing that day, but I'll never forget lunch. We're all sprawled out on the floor of a giant warehouse, breaking open our MREs. A squad leader didn't care for his dehydrated pork patty, so he asked his first fire team leader to trade for his chicken a la king.

That was an obvious "hell no" situation, and the two started bantering around, trading insults, obviously in jest, but escalating until they were actually wrestling.

Then! My squad leader jump on the fire team leader, knocked him to the ground and started humping him. "You know you've always wanted this. That's why you wouldnt trade. To give me an excuse!"

The whole platoon gathered around laughing and cat calling. Everybody thought it was hilarious until the platoon sergeant broke it up and told us all to hurry up and finish our chow so we could get back to work. But he could hardly get the words out between his own laughs.

I watched wide eyed and uncomfortable, as a closeted gay person who had no idea why they would act like that ... on purpose and in public, so in public that they called attention to themselves.

What made it so crazy is that if I had told people I was gay, I would have been in a world of shit. Possibly violent shit, definitely legal shit.

I saw lots of other behavior like that in the military, though that probably takes the cake cake for the most crazy. I've never heard the phenomenon described the way you described it, though. Very interesting!