I wish they would stop disingenously calling it “ending don’t ask/don’t tell” - it does no such thing; or the military would ban homosexual outright as it had before DADT.
They should call it like it is: sodomizing the military.
The health care costs of female soldiers and their ineffectiveness in combat, to this day, has been squashed and ingored as a scandal of huge proportion.
Now we are going to have an openly rapist military with a host of problems.
Actually, that's not entirely accurate. What Congress passed was repeal of is known colloquially as DADT. The repeal also cedes to the Executive, discretion and time with respect to when the repeal is enacted. Then, like before the implementation of DADT, the homosexual military policy issue will be at the sole discretion of the President. He will, presumably, issue an Executive Order that will rescind the previous order of Reagan (I believe), and it's that order that will allow homosexual to serve "openly" in the Armed Services.
After Obama leaves office, the next President could (theoretically) reverse that military policy.
Of course, there is ongoing litigation seeking to prohibit (so-called) discrimination against gays serving openly in the military, which is wholly separate from this repeal.