I believe that the results are fairly accurate, but they are not 100% truthful, or reflect the representation of the military as a whole. First off this is my opinion and not that of the US government or military. Secondly, like an...y good soldier if this is passed most soldiers including myself will suck it up and drive on, and either choose to get out (which I believe will be a large portion of the military) or re-enlist when our contracts have expired.
The results of this survey stated that the combat arms - meaning infantry, armor, special forces, engineers, and marines do not support allowing open homosexuality. I believe this to be the case because these are the men (women are not allowed to serve in front line units) who are at the tip of the spear of the fight. They are living in ragged conditions at combat outpost far from the luxurious “FOBS” or base camps. These are men who go days without showers, and are required to more often than not share showers and water supply, sometimes re-supply is non-existant depending on if the route or convoys have been ambushed. Also due to the nature of the fight being in remote, mountainous, but sometimes urban terrain (Iraq) our soliders are required to live with, and work amongst the locals. Having openly gay soldiers will affect the moral of these units, and cause discplinary problems. I can take an example from Iraq, we had a soldier at a combat outpost who was sleeping with the local Iraqi interpretors we had living on this little post in the middle of Baghdad. This hurt moral, and caused distrust among fellow soldiers. This also led to a breach in operational security as this soldier was emotionally attached to the Iraqis that he was sleeping with. Putting soldiers far away from home in remote, and often dangerous, and chaotic situations and requiring them to also deal with love relationships amongst their colleagues is not an additional stress that needs to be added. Also I believe that when you will have openly gay soldiers you will see an increase in favoritism in the ranks due to a relationship. This will also affect moral as well as retention. When you put private joe snuffy from Winterset Iowa in a remote, dangerous, and often fight or flight situation he does not need to be worried about if his comrades are sleeping with eachother, or with their superiors. I believe the results of this policy if enacted will be disasterous on America’s fighting man, especially in the infantry.