The Nation - News from May 7, 1986
A sailor faces a court-martial for refusing to take an AIDS blood test in the first challenge of the military’s policy of checking all personnel for the deadly disease, Navy officials said in Norfolk, Va. Petty Officer 2nd Class Phillip J. Nolan is charged with disobeying an order April 10 to take the test that shows if a person has been exposed to acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Nolan is the first sailor to refuse the test since the military ordered AIDS testing of its 2.2 million personnel last October, said a spokesman, Lt. Cmdr. Craig Quigley.
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