I have just one final question: what's so gay about the Air Force and the Coast Guard?

Nothing at all, PoppaGator. But a lot of gay men (certainly not all of them), and also some men in those particular branches of the service, whether they might happen to be gay or not (at least the ones I've met myself, anyway), have tended to be quite fastidious about their surroundings.

A friend of mine when I was a kid wasn't even allowed to sit on her bed after it had been made. This was her father's rule... he called it "keeping a tight ship"... he was in the coast guard. The idea being that if my friend sat on her bed, the bedspread wouldn't look perfectly smooth and straight any more.