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Petraeus Aide: Soldiers Who Can't Handle DADT Repeal Should Leave Service
politicsdaily.com ^ | Dec. 10, 2010 | Christopher Weber

Posted on 12/11/2010 12:31:54 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

Troops who can't accept the idea of overturning the ban on gays in the military should consider leaving the service, says a senior aide to Gen. David Petraeus.

Command Sergeant Major Marvin Hill tells TV One's "Washington Watch" that he believes "the troops are ready" for the repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.

"If there are people who cannot deal with the change, then they're going to have to do what's best for their troops and best for the organization and best for the military service and exit the military service, so that we can move forward -- if that's the way that we have to go," Hill says in an interview with Roland Martin, scheduled to air Sunday.

Hill says it will be up to military brass to "set the tone" for the rank-and-file in accepting gay service members.

"We know that if there is a change, that that change will have to be led, and it's going to have to be led by senior leaders such as myself and -- and others across the battlefield," Hill says.

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To: OneWingedShark
...“if Obama turns out to be ineligible then it is the Army’s duty to remove him.”

Hmmmm... I think I see a reason why Obama would want people like that to get out.

121 posted on 12/11/2010 1:57:15 PM PST by hattend (The meaning of the 2010 election was rebuke, reject, and repeal. - Sarah Palin)
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To: carjic

A combat Infantry veteran, my son is leaving the Army after 12 years. And it has a lot to do with this kind of insane “must accept perversion or else” mentality starting to pervade the Army.


122 posted on 12/11/2010 2:01:52 PM PST by brushcop (CW4 Matthew Lourey CW2 Joshua Scott/ Kiowa pilots KIA Iraq '05. Thank you for our son's life.)
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To: Cicero
Did he get this job for saying this? Just asking. Or was it rotation time and he was next in line?

If you're asking my opinion, I'd have to go with your initial assumption.

I seriously doubt that such a senior NCO would say anything political like this without having been commanded to do so.

Exactly. But nothing done by 0bama's Administration is ever done subtly, is it? It's always calculated to be outrageous and in our face by design.

This. Is. Simply. OUTRAGEOUS.

123 posted on 12/11/2010 2:02:49 PM PST by Conservative Tsunami
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To: hattend

>>...“if Obama turns out to be ineligible then it is the Army’s duty to remove him.”
>Hmmmm... I think I see a reason why Obama would want people like that to get out.

*nod* — There’s the travesty of a trial for LTC Lakin which inspired this little thought experiment:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/2638933/posts


124 posted on 12/11/2010 2:03:25 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Venturer
Patreaus needs a new Command Sergeant Major.

Petraeus is TOTALLY onboard. CiC orders.

125 posted on 12/11/2010 2:04:06 PM PST by Conservative Tsunami
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To: Chode
looks like it's Betrayus after all...

Nice catch.

126 posted on 12/11/2010 2:05:01 PM PST by Conservative Tsunami
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To: BilLies
Maybe an stupid question but why doesn't Hill have a Combat Infantryman's Badge rather than a Combat Action Badge?

Because he has not had a duty where he could earn the CIB. He has been in a position where he could get the CAB but never the good one.

This POS has been promoted through the ranks, and given jobs that would help pad his career but keep him directly out of the action, for one reason only.

You can easily guess that reason.

127 posted on 12/11/2010 2:05:48 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This repeal of DADT is wrong on so many levels, the first being no one is comprehending the big picture....this is a war involving life and death, NOT a God Damn sexual dating service The stupid idiot-in-chief and his lover Reggie should concentrate on their own problems and not make it anyone else’s. If Obama was out of the closet I might have a better understanding of his zest to appeal DADT so until that day why doesn’t he concentrate on the budget or something?


128 posted on 12/11/2010 2:11:12 PM PST by DefeatCorruption
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To: Jim Robinson

“Proof that there are idiots being promoted up the ranks.”

Bingo! This ‘bumping-up’ in the ranks goes all the way to the Whitey House.

Say when, Jim.


129 posted on 12/11/2010 2:13:00 PM PST by panaxanax (IMPEACH THE MUSLIM MARXIST....NOW!!!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Good point.


130 posted on 12/11/2010 2:16:30 PM PST by Dante3
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To: Fred Hayek
This is in effect a bloodless purge of the military. And it’s step 1 of destroying the military.

Oh we are so much further down the road than "step 1". Endless tours, suicidal ROE, PC brass, but the big one is the fact that we are grinding up our gear in the sand and mountains for nothing in return.

Are we replacing shot-up A-10s and Apaches? Any new MBTs on the way? Where are hundreds of billions of $$ going to anyway? We are emptying the Treasury and burning down the inventory while perfecting the art of low collateral domestic urban warfare, suitable for bringing back home and applying liberally.

I predict poop-pushers will be fast-tracked into upper management for all the obvious reasons.

131 posted on 12/11/2010 2:21:46 PM PST by The Theophilus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My son interest in the military but if DADT is repealed, now way no how.. If there is a ever a draft, he is up to Canada.


132 posted on 12/11/2010 2:27:53 PM PST by scbison
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Let the military then become a haven for faggots and dykes, openly, and the Real Men will leave.

Isn't this how Rome fell?

133 posted on 12/11/2010 2:30:01 PM PST by traditional1 ("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: scbison
If there's a draft again with these clowns in office, the Watts riots will look like an episode of Seinfeld.
134 posted on 12/11/2010 2:30:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body." CS Lewis)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Sounds like the SGM is a butt boy given his remarks!


135 posted on 12/11/2010 2:33:33 PM PST by RVN Airplane Driver ("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Our leaders are FOOLS.


136 posted on 12/11/2010 2:45:24 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: RVN Airplane Driver

I heard a real loud smooching sound this morning. Now I know where it came from!


137 posted on 12/11/2010 2:46:10 PM PST by hal ogen (1st Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

If that’s true, they better allow them to leave on an honorable discharge.


138 posted on 12/11/2010 2:46:36 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: ccruse456

The war department won all of it’s wars .
The department of defense has won nothing.

These generals are why we haven’t thrown zero out yet, they are pussies!


139 posted on 12/11/2010 2:47:17 PM PST by devistate one four (Revolution! Are you ready? Kimber CDP II .45 OOHRAH! TET68)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Instead of ptsd they will have bend overitus


140 posted on 12/11/2010 2:49:39 PM PST by devistate one four (Revolution! Are you ready? Kimber CDP II .45 OOHRAH! TET68)
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