Number of Gays Leaving Military Rises

AP ^ | 5/24/6

[FormerLib]

I was hoping the doorknob wouldn't give 'em that "special" thrill.

[Candor7]

We have much better fings to do than get our athes shot up when all we want to do is kith Ahmed and Furqaan!

[Candor7]

It is only a matter of time until this spins into "retention problems".

Yeah, likely the 630 troops that re-upped at Fort Carson, Colorado 2 weeks ago, en masse, almost an entire regiment, were obviously just a bunch of gays who wanted to stay together

The army has no retention problem, but the MSM has created a recruiting problem by failing to tell the truth about Iraq. If the army wants to maiontain recruiting levels, they simply need to get the news out of who is winning in Iraq.

[right-wingin_It]

Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, which has represented military members who were forced out for being openly gay, says the Pentagon's policy deprives the military of qualified and experienced personnel in at a time when the Army and Marine Corps have struggled to meet their recruiting goals.

What a typical BS lib distortion. Recruitment goals are consistently being met -- That's fact! I guess looking back, this morning I struggled to tie my shoes, eat breakfast, brush my teeth. Later I struggled at my job. Then I stuggled boiling pasta for dinner. And yet I do it every day for 365 days a year. Idiots.

[little jeremiah]

Solution - ask, then if they give the wrong answer, show 'em the door of the recruitment office.

[RasterMaster]

The U.S. military is not the place for BJ Clinton's social experiments. Destroying the military was the first order of business in building the "CLINTON LEGACY"...

[longtermmemmory]

This is the Clinton Legacy of his first 100 days.

Remember the FIRST think clinton wanted to do was legalize homosexuals in the military.

So would hitlary legalize all homosexual marriages? (answer: yes)

[quadrant]

If these numbers are correct, the 1379 servicemen discharged under this policy hardly constitutes a great drain on the nation's military strength.
Perhaps these 1379 people realized the obvious: military service in the US Armed Forces is not compatible with homosexually. They reached the correct decision and sought to leave. For that decision, they should be applauded.

[longtermmemmory]

Don't forget the SFgate and the AP report that those in the miliary are typically poor and desperate and minority.

So the military should never have recruited these poor, desperate, minority, and homosexual peoples.

So according to the left they should not be allowed to recruit anyone but they have to keep all the homosexuals.

[longtermmemmory]

how many of those were attempted rapes?

how many of those were discovered because of HIV positive tests? (just what you want in a bullet wound)

[not2worry]

I've always wondered what the percentage of gays in the Military were there to defend our Country, to cover up that they are gay or just that so many men in one place, so many choices.

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The number of military members discharged under Pentagon's CLINTON'S "don't ask, don't tell" policy...

As I have stated before and will state again -it is way past time to kick Clinton's homosexual legacy of "don't ask, don't tell" to the curb -conservatives need to put it down like a rabid leftist animal asap...

[xzins]

Without data showing how many of these were on their first enlistment it is a meaningless number.

There are no societal sanctions anymore for being gay, so it is one of the methods of choice for getting out of the military.

For females, it is getting pregnant.

[airborne]

The number of military members discharged under the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on homosexuals

Bill Clinton's policy!

I guess they conveniently left that out in order to "Blame Bush"!

[Grampa Dave]

How many of these losers joined to get discharged and then go on stage to trash the military with the other better known rats?

[Antoninus]

And this is bad why?

It's only bad because it means more of them are getting through the door in the first place. All the time and money spent training them is wasted.

Other than that, git 'em out!

[Nice50BMG]

Thank Bill Clinton. Thank Colin Powell.

[thinking]

GOOD

[quadrant]

I have no idea, but it sounds alarmist to claim the national security of the US is in danger because 1379 individuals left the service or to claim that Osama bin Laden would be in US custody if we allowed gays to serve openly.