While Americans celebrated/bemoaned the Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage in the comfort of their homes, former Navy SEAL Brett Jones was stranded in the Afghanistan desert without water by his own team. He has now filed an internal complaint with the CIA alleging that he was harassed and bullied for being gay.

Since leaving the military in 2003 and becoming a CIA contractor, Jones thought his days of hiding his sexuality were over. While working with the CIA’s Global Response Staff in June, however, Jones was called slurs by his team members at best and outright abandoned in 120 degree weather at worst. According to his complaint, Jones’ team also altered his call sign from “Bad Monkey” to “Gay Gay” in a powerpoint presentation and grew hostile when he confronted them.

Amid the constant harassment, Jones began to fear for his own life and cut his Afghanistan mission short. Even though identifying himself as a CIA operative will undoubtedly cost Jones his career, he is going public with the incident in the hopes of changing the agency.

“I’ve wrestled back and forth about whether or not to go public,” Jones said. “The only reason I did is the hope that there is a chance, thought I know it’s a slim one, that it will change some of the environment, some of the people.”

CIA spokesman Dean Boyd asserted that the agency was launching a full investigation into this complaint.

“We take very seriously any allegation of sexual, racial or any other form of harassment and/or discrimination at CIA. We have a Zero Tolerance Policy against such behavior and CIA leadership is committed to holding all employees accountable for living and promoting this policy,” he said.