8 after he started masturbating in the waiting room. American deathcore band Whitechapel featured a song called "Section 8" on their self-titled album from 2012. In the war novel A Separate Peace the character Elwin "Leper" Lepellier gets a Section Eight discharge from the ski troops because he was hallucinating due to sleep deprivation. Cliffhanger film, 1993. Starring Sylvester Stallone, where a character named Travis goes crazy at the end says, "..I've gone full ..(expletive).. Section 8." Notable examples During World War II, in November 1943, at age 17, actor Sidney Poitier lied about his age and enlisted in the Army. He was assigned to a Veteran's Administration hospital in Northport, New York, and was trained to work with psychiatric patients. Poitier became upset with how the hospital treated its patients and feigned mental illness to obtain a discharge. Poitier confessed to a psychiatrist that he was faking his condition, but the doctor was sympathetic and granted his discharge under Section VIII of Army regulation 615–360 in December 1944. See also Blue discharge Section 8, a video game named after the military term due to its game mechanics of "dangerously insane" orbital flights. Don't ask, don't tell References United States military law Military psychiatry Disability in law LGBT people and military service in the United States