[gogeo]

It weakens the US military when it kicks out competent people who have language skills that are desperately needed and in short supply. Many of the jobs requiring these languages are stateside jobs that don’t involve living in barracks. They involve working in an office translating intercepted communications. I don’t want Americans — including American military service members — getting killed because our intelligence translators are months behind in translating intercepted communications, because needed staff has not been hired and has been let go, due solely to what their preferred sexual activities are in their personal, off-duty time...

That is so weak. Only gays have language skills...who knew?

[GovernmentShrinker]

Nobody said only gays have language skills. But there are certain languages for which the military has a serious shortage of staff, and the military has nonetheless kicked out and turned away qualified gay people who have these language skills, even when there are no other disqualifying factors involved. If the military can afford to refrain from employing these people, then why does it still have shortages in these languages.

For a related matter, you should read yesterday’s Fox News article about the prevalence of homosexual behavior among Pashtun-speaking Afghans, even though they refuse to identify themselves as homosexual http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2439432/posts . Pashtun is one of the languages for which both the military and civilian intelligence services have difficulty recruiting fluent speakers. Given the cultural background, it’s not surprising that many native and first-generation American Pashtun-speakers would qualify as “homosexual” under the military definition.