Did you do any deployments?
Is the “mood” of the active military being accurately/honestly represented by the media (including Military Times sites)?
Describe the impact, if any, related to transgendered military members from the beginning of your enlistment until the end of your enlistment? What was the attitude of other enlisted personnel about serving with transgenders and/or homosexuals?
Just curious to hear your observations about these topics.
Our three sons were all USMC, but were in active between about 2002 and 2009, so I expect things changed a great deal during the 0bama years.
Thank you, and thank you for your service and participation on FR.
I’ve never deployed.
As a private citizen, I think many in the service are wondering when the next big engagements going to be, and a lot of them are sick of social engineering.
Never saw a trans service member, though there were a lot of homosexuals. We did have a briefing about the gender reassignment stuff which many thought was bull. Homosexuals are usually fine to serve with, I had a few decent ones as NCOs. This was because they kept it to themselves and were hospitable to us. Don’t know much about trans attitudes, probably because people didn’t want to bring it up.