What the Don't Ask Don't Tell Report Really Says

Washington Examiner ^ | 12/1/2010 | Byron York

[a fool in paradise]

How about

“If you are willing to shower and bunk with a member of the same sex who is homosexual, are you (A)FOR or (B) AGAINST showering and bunking with members of the opposite sex, who may or may not be homosexual”

[BufordP]

If DADT is repealed gay servicemen will have no reason to be discreet. They will be as promiscuous as they want to be. Since they score the lion's share of HIV, HIV may spread among the heterosexual population fighting on the battlefield when combat medics start digging around one bloody injury to another. Is the medic going to make sure he changes latex gloves for every soldier he attends in the heat of battle? Will he even tend to a soldier known to be openly homosexual?

Not to mention the drain on military healthcare system and all the other issues that go along with bunking in close quarters.

[Spok]

Opening the floodgates of litigation for every hurt feeling or insult (real or imagined), or discriimination, (real or imagined), will destroy morale and cohesiveness in the military. The left is assaulting every traditional institution, from religion to marriage to the military, not with the intention of change, but I believe to destroy them.

[chris_bdba]

Wasn’t there a poll last year by the military times that said something to the effect that 70%+ of enlisted men said it would impact their decisions to reenlist?

[Sporke]

There were gays serving on my ship when I was in the Navy, and when they were “outed” for one reason or another, things didn’t go well for them. They were normally “removed” from the ship very quickly (for their own safety I assumed). I’m not saying it was right how they were treated, but it was reality.

I can only comment on what I know about from my experience. Living quarters/showers are cramped, even on big ships, and life on a ship is stressful. After getting off work, it was nice to be able to hang out and play cards or listen to music and not have to worry about being “scoped out” or whatever.

I tend to think of having gays openly serving as being about equal to having men/women living in the same living quarters. While there may be good intentions all around if men and women were berthed together, there WOULD be added stress, to the men, and the women. It’s simple biology.

Why subject our soldiers/airmen/sailors to more stress than they already have? The military shouldn’t be a social experiment. How long before two men have sex in a berthing area? How would you feel if two guys had sex in your HOME and you were unable to leave? There are so many reasons not to repeal DADT, and I can’t think of one good reason to do it.

I also have a real problem with politicians/media who always ask officers about it. They won’t be the ones who have to deal with it in their day to day working environment, at least not to the extent of the enlisted personel. Living conditions were cramped as a sailor, I can only imagine what life is like for an enlisted soldier in combat.

I will be saddened for our armed forces if DADT is repealed. I don’t consider myself a homophobe, but if others think I am, I won’t care, at all. I just feel from my experience that we don’t need to do this. It will make the military less than it is now, in many ways.

rant over...

[Vaduz]

What the report actually shows is.
The old lets change the numbers game.