Panetta: Gay ban repeal has not hurt morale

Associated Press ^ | May 10, 2011 | Associated Press

[Retain Mike]

WASHINGTON – Military leaders have concluded that last year's repeal of the ban on gays serving openly in uniform has not affected morale or readiness so far, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday. "My view is that the military has kind of moved beyond it. It's become part and parcel of what they've accepted within the military,"

[Ronin]

My wife is a Japanese civilian employee working at Yokota AB. She says that everyone she meets looks tired, numb and listless. Too much work, no support, no replacements for PCS active duty staffers, GS workforce is being cut to the bone. Everyone is scared of RIFs. COLA is gone, the value of the dollar is plunging, restrictions on off-base liberty (or whatever the AF calls it) are being tightened...

Active duty servicemembers are just keeping their heads down and marking time, hoping beyond hope that Obama is voted out in November. It’s worse than Carter and the 70s.

When Obama was elected three years ago, a lot of GS types were ecstatic. No one even talks about him anymore and when they do, they look around first and talk in low voices.

Of course it hasn’t hurt morale. You can’t wet a river. Based on everything I have heard, seen or read, morale is already down so low that the DADT repeal barely registers.

[Luke21]

Who trusts either Panetta or the Asspress?

[GoldenEagles]

How many here are going to vote for Romney who supports homosexuals in the military, and who actually hired a proud out-of-the-closet homosexual activist to be his foreign policy and national security spokesman?

Please see:

VOTING FOR ROMNEY
IS TO VOTE FOR THE
DEATH OF AMERICA

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[Repeat Offender]

It isn't like you can put in your two weeks notice and leave..........the exodus begins one by one at the end of a contract.

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Prancing Soldiers from the sky

More or less men who soon will die

Men who lisp everything they say

The fabulous men of the Pink Beret

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Silver earrings that look their best

These are men; America's homo fest

100 men test for AIDs today

All of them are Pink Beret

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Trained to live in fashion land

Together they go hand-to-hand

Men who shriek night and day

Courage peak from the Pink Beret

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[chorus]

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Back at home his partner waits

His Pink Beret has met his fate

He has died from the AIDS virus

Leaving him his last request

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Put silver earrings in my son's chest

Make him one of Ellen's guests

He'll be the one they test for AIDS one day

Have him wear the Pink Beret

[napscoordinator]

It isn’t like you can put in your two weeks notice and leave..........the exodus begins one by one at the end of a contract.

That is true, but the services want people to leave. They are slicing and dicing the numbers big time. They don’t care about the reason people leave. They just want them to LEAVE. Navy got rid of 5 thousand last year that didn’t even want to go. They are cutting all over the place.

[Repeat Offender]

Oh, I know. They want to cut 25K from the USMC. The problem is a lot of the best and brightest are who is leaving......the remainder of the best and brightest have't yet realized they can't save the world and can't stop the machine.....Dagney Taggart syndrome.

Don't worry, they want females in the infantry too. The infantry will soon be nothing more than fruits and females.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

[Godwin1]

How would Panetta know? Has he asked the same ticket punching careerist “officers” who sell out their soldiers, marines and SEALS by courtmartialing them for killing the enemy or—SEALS case—for punching them in the nose? Panetta is a politician and what can you expect? But the moral cowardice of the senior uniformed leadership breaks the heart and makes one fear for the future of a once-proud military.