Personally I want to thank CNN for ambushing the GOP candidates with this issue once again for all to see that the liberals have absolutely nothing to bring to the table but the past...
There is no future with these shlups, and to have their dogs bring it up again illustrates this point...
One thing after serving our country “in the trenches” so to speak is really kinda funny when you get right down to it...
Not once during the whole debate about homosexuals serving in the armed forces for this country was any rank and file interviewd or testified before congress or given a chance to tell what it is “we” would have to face either way, hoew this issue really was going to be handled...
I personally knew of only one person that was in my “division/department” while I was in the fleet...And that person never admitted, or demonstrated anything but professionalism and integrity to the job...Do I excuse his desires or tendencies??? No, did I approve??? No...
Having said all of this, those of us who have served and are serving (rank and file) know why this is a serious issue, but also we are smart enough, more than any politician, and sometimes even all of these flag officers know what the problems are with this...
It has nothing to do with the socio-interaction between heterosexual and homosexual service members...As much as this is what the politicians want to engineer into the armed services of this country...
The prevalence of adverse medical conditions is what the risks are with allowing this to continue to be a wink wink nod nod issue in the armed services...Plain and simple...Albiet it is a slower transference of conditions because units (especially Navy) your emergency blood supply is the guy or gal right next to you...And thats just the first of a few I could rattle off, but I’ll let y’all figure out the rest...
Soi thats why after years I have to publically say something thats been bugging me since the 80’s...
No one wants to get the opinion of those who are directly going to have to deal with this issue, and not a bunch of desk jockeys (with all due respect!) And the three flag officers I have served with in the past, who know me personally, would agree with me on this...
Adm. Rodney Rempt
Adm. William Sutton
This is never going to be an issue that warrants the amount of time and hand0wringing that it has due to the lack of vision by our government...I do not blame or disagree with much that the officers who have been asked to testify to this issue have done so...
It’s just another demonstration/illustration of how elected officials continue to fail the armed services of this country...
It bears repeating:
“It’s just another demonstration/illustration of how elected officials continue to fail the armed services of this country...”