Being retired Army, I should be indignant, but that was funny!
Just marginally relevant to the Monty Python thing, but I but after reading your reply I recalled a news story from the Clinton era about a contingent of gay dutch troops called the “Dutch Gay Army” or something like that. They participated in the UN police action in Yugoslavia.
I just googled “Dutch Gay Army”, and found several 2010 news headlines about the Dutch govt bitterly demanding an apology from an American General Sheehan over his testimony in a senate hearing concerning alleged poor performance of Dutch gay troops in Bosnia during the 1990’s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V7Or0kbqY0