I have no words to express my disgust right now.
All I can say is that I have served and there is no way I would want to have two friggin homos in the same shower, in the same room I have to sleep or even be around them.
This is a friggin outrage and then I hear now he is appointing a socialist to his cabinet,
CIA will be headed by someone who has no intel experience
the IRS, treasury will be headed by a man who doesn’t pay HIS taxes
B/S
I served too and truthfully, I have mixed feelings about this. The fact of the matter is there are mission critical MOS's that go unfilled because of lack of manpower.
I have served with at least three people I suspected and one that was fairly open about it. He was a corpsman attached to a Marine Weapons company that I commanded. He was, to use the vernacular, a flamer. Honestly, no one cared and it was frequently joked about in his company. But, he was the best Corpsman I had in almost 20 years of service. He was the brightest, most squared-away and was always motivated and hard charging. I certainly could have made the case and had him removed from service. Or, I could look the other way and made sure my men were given the best medical possible. I chose the latter - and no one complained publicly or privately.
However, I understand that my experience was probably an exceptional one, and many things are overlooked in a combat zone that might otherwise cause great morale and disciplinary problems. Also, we are having this jammed down the throat of the military by a man who has never served and can't begin to understand the command challenges of implementing this on a platoon, company or battalion level.
I'm afraid that the lifting of Don't Ask/Don't Tell will cause more disciplinary problems than manpower shortages it may solve.