There is no way that it happened to be a gay couple that appears photogenic and palatable by sheer luck of the draw.
Make no mistake, this was set up.
You may be right, but if so, it means someone wearing a uniform is lying. That's certainly possible, but right now we have no evidence.
Remember that this raffle was a benefit for a Family Readiness Group. FRGs talk — a lot. My guess is we'll hear LOTS more stuff about this “first kiss” couple if things aren't the way they appeared. These two young women have put bullseyes on their backs and what they do from now on will be watched very carefully by both friends and enemies of homosexuals in the military.
On the other hand, it's just as possible that an attractive lesbian couple said, “Hey, let's try this, and if we win the raffle, look at all the good publicity it will do for our cause — and our commanders won't be able to do anything about it!” Putting $50 worth of $1 tickets into the raffle pot for the “first-kiss” didn't guarantee their selection, but it sure made it more likely.
Stranger stuff has happened.
I live outside an Army installation with sizable Marine and Air Force detachments, along with a group of Navy Seabees, and while I see sailors occasionally, I know the Army better than the Navy. It's my understanding that the Navy is considerably more “gay-friendly” than the Army.
I am not the sort of person to whom a homosexual servicemember of any branch would be likely to “come out” and I'm sure I've met homosexual soldiers without knowing it. However, based on what I have seen from getting to know military personnel who were only thinly-disguised homosexuals before the repeal of DADT, the number of single female soldiers who are lesbians is small but not insignificant.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but since soldiers are supposed to be physically fit and since a fair number of women in uniform are former high school or college athletes, it stands to reason that the percentage of attractive lesbians in uniform would be higher than the general lesbian population.
“Yuck alert” here — don't read the next paragraph if you are grossed out by gays.
Prior to the repeal of DADT, some lesbians I know in the Army used male friends of mine as “cover dates.” A fair number of these women were quite attractive, in an athletic and aggressive sort of way rather than a “girly girl” sort of way. I haven't heard this with my own ears, but my understanding is these women sometimes made comments about their “cover dates” along the lines of this: “Women have always ‘faked it,’ so why shouldn't I go to bed with a guy even if that's not my preference? After all, he likes it, I don't mind it, I get a nice dinner, and sleeping with guys deflects suspicions about being lesbian and helps me keep my job without having to make a long-term commitment to any guy.”
Obviously this isn't something I endorse, but sexual immorality has been a problem in the military among single servicemembers for a very long time, and lots of heterosexual women in the military spent lots of time bedhopping, too. Sexual immorality in uniform is not a problem that will be solved by re-instituting DADT.