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Myself, I think there should be a poll of active duty military about how they feel.

There have been such polls:

‘Don’t ask’ survey published (Military Times)

Next month, the Pentagon is expected to release a report that assessed the replies of over 400,000 service members who were surveyed on the issue.

And Sola Veritas took one of these surveys, and testified about it’s bogusness on another thread.

Sola, if you don’t mind copying or re-telling what you said on that other thread some days ago. I should have saved it; I don’t remember which thread it was on.

I've taken that survey, and its BS. It is a soft-pedal, politically correct survey that asks questions like "would you participate in social functions if there were gay people present?" The only place I got to put anything at all relevant was a spot for free text, and God knows what will happen to that. Now, you also have to know that every survey was assigned a specific tracking number, and my survey was personally adressed to me. I'm not in a position to worry much about what I say now, thank God, but if I were, I would be very careful with my answers because I don't for a minute doubt that someone at some point can track my answers directly back to me, and that might be an issue at a future point in determining promotions, assignments, etc. You notice that the results leaked to the media are already saying most service members support the repeal. That is BS. All you have to do is look at the questions to see there will be almost no other way to interpret the results. Gays in the military are bad news, period. They have a very high level of neroses, are poor leaders, and are terrible for morale. Civilians have no idea of the stresses involved, particularly for the young enlisted troops who have no control over many aspects of their lives. If DADT is repealed, discipline, violence and suicide issues will skyrocket.

The poll you cite was of readers and relied on their honest replies. It quite easily could have been slanted by individuals logging on claiming to be military members with combat service, etc. Even this current survey was open to replies by spouses and we’ll have to look at the cross tabs to see whether the information is actually verifiable. We KNOW the sodomy lobby is quite active in slanting these surveys and it shouldn’t surprise any of us who have seen recent active duty that the results don’t square with our own experience.