Posted on 07/21/2012 5:18:25 PM PDT by madprof98
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Some of the loudest cheers Saturday at San Diego's gay pride parade were for active-duty troops marching in military dress, the first time that U.S. service members participated in such an event while in full uniform.
Dozens of soldiers, sailors, and Marines marched alongside an old Army truck decorated with a "Freedom to Serve" banner and a rainbow flag. They were joined by dozens more military personnel in civilian clothes, but the uniforms stood out among the flower-bedecked floats and scantily clad revelers.
Spectators waved signs reading, "Thank you for your service." A woman held a placard that said: "My gay son is a Naval officer."
In a memorandum sent to all its branches this year, the Defense Department said it was making the allowance for the San Diego event even though its policy generally bars troops from marching in uniform in parades.
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"I KNOW BUT ONE CODE OF MORALITY FOR MEN WHETHER ACTING SINGLY OR COLLECTIVELY"
--Thomas Jefferson
“.....who had just retired from the military and was now flying Boeing airliners to Japan.
Without a commercial ticket and thousands of hours of heavy multi-engine time, your anecdote, as described, doesn’t pass the smell test......”
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I think you should read and assess things more carefully before you jump to a judgement. The person in question apparently flew in Marine aviation on active duty and then, when he left the service, served in the AIR NATIONAL GUARD (ANG). I suspect that it was during his service in the ANG that he also pursued a civilian career as a airline pilot. And it was from the ANG that he retired. That’s all feasible (and, actually, quite common) and it definitely doesn’t fail my “smell test”.
Sodomites can openly celebrate in uniform and breast feeding moms who do it get fired:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/14/woman-behind-military-breastfeeding-photo-fired-from-job/
Something is seriously wrong here.
...again fashionable Leftist political correctness will have to be defended in blood on the battlefield by men who think those they defend are worthless pieces of sick!
Gag me with a spoon! This is disgraceful. They don’t want equal rights, they, like the other special interest groups with prog/socialist agendas, want MORE rights.
I was thinking the same thing about my dad - retired Navy chief who was so gung-ho for the Navy, he lied about his age to get in, and was in for over 20 years. I can only imagine what he would have had to say about all this, as well as the usurper CinC.
And to all of you who have served, THANK YOU for your service!
I suspect that enlistments will drop and in a few years there will be talk of bringing back the draft.
I suspect it will be a long time before they have to worry about enlistment rates or retention. The economy is so bad and the Pentagon taking huge hits in the next 20 years. I doubt we will hear of any negativity about retention for 20 years UNLESS the economy comes back sooner.
Hmm, it still grates on me sometimes...but seeing this, among other things, makes me think it was a good thing I was turned down by the military.
...the US military seems more interested in fighting for “gay rights” than it does fighting al Queda.
If I were a Muslim thug I’d be laughing too. :(
My buddy recruited out of the 125th St office in Harlem. It would take on the average 30 applicants to get one qualified to join the Air Force. The recruiter in Staten Island had a higher success rate, his was around 50%. The flight recruiting in Europe had a 100% success rate.
I wondered similar things when I first heard that this had been approved by the military. My brother has been in the military for nearly 30 years. He has said that he has to be very careful to be “a-political” and refrains from discussing political issues entirely because of the policy in place.
How is it that the military is allowing active members to publicly engage in political activism, IN UNIFORM NO LESS!!! It seems to me that they have opened a very messy can of worms.
Your question is now the topic of discussion in the military, by giving permission for the homosexuals to march in uniform, he has opened pandoras box!
He tells that story about once a week. It went well beyond the smell test a year ago.
The hell it doesn't. Virtually all of us who went through Air Force Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT) got a commercial ticket w/instrument rating, etc. before even leaving the UPT base for your next assignment. Cost me a whopping ten bucks. Guarantee this guy has it, and probably an ATP as well.
I was a heavy driver (KC-135's), but if you think all airline pilots were former military heavy drivers vs. fighter pilots, think again.
I respect A.A. Cunningham (having read his posts on FR for a long time) and while I do know something about military aviation, civil aviation isn’t something I know a great deal about, so I didn’t really feel that I could dispute his point, even if it did introduce some degree of discouraging doubt to me.
I appreciate your input, because I cannot tell you how disappointed I would be if the guy was being dishonest. I have to tell you, I walked away after talking to him with a deep admiration for his outlook and devotion to Christian and American principles.
It is considered to be good practice to include someone as a recipient in your posts if you mention them, even if it is as dismissive and disparaging as yours.
I would normally have made the assumption that you are someone who has been booted off FR for some reason and have returned under a different name, and that you should know that, given that you seem to be following my posts for a year or more but only just created an account last month.
I will give you the benefit of doubt, and assume you didn’t address your issues with my post directly or even indirectly to me, not because you are a coward or intellectually weak, but because you are new to FR and don’t understand the environment.
What is your issue with the post, that it is a repeat post? Or that you think I spun the thing out of whole cloth?
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