This is interesting. Because of cultural changes and government changes on don’t ask don’t tell, I believe the kind of people making up our military will be very different in the future than has traditionally existed in our nation’s long ago and more recent past. In other words, it will in the future be made up of people who would love nothing more than advance with violence on our own people, especially white Christian conservatives. If our military budget is slashed, perhaps for this reason alone, it might have some benefit.
I think this is in part correct. I would be interested to see if military people will be willing to talk outside of school about issues such as de facto making queers a ‘protected class’ within the services and about interesting queer activities such as ‘wolf packing’’ and same sex male on male sexual assaults. I am particularly interested in seeing if a violent queer culture starts to emerge in the ranks that officers know is career suicide to firmly oppose and like in the RC church after certain violent queers become to public a problem just shift them to another unit. i know such things were done with blacks who were Black panther or Black Liberation Army or Black Muslim militant and violent types during the 68-71 period.