Posted on 08/13/2012 7:44:06 AM PDT by darrellmaurina
WASHINGTON — An Army officer being promoted to brigadier general openly acknowledged her homosexuality on Friday by having her wife pin her star to her uniform, thus becoming the first openly gay officer of flag rank in the United States military.
The officer, Brig. Gen. Tammy S. Smith, 49, a 26-year veteran of the Army, was promoted in a ceremony at the women’s memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. The star was affixed by Tracey Hepner, who was a co-founder last year of the Military Partners and Families Coalition, which “provides support, resources, education and advocacy for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender military partners and their families,” according to its Web site.
The couple married in March 2011 in the District of Columbia.
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They had to do a walk run in full Kit, as the Limeys, say to get out, I forget the distance. We did a four mile run every morning in boots sans fatigue jacket. This was at the start of the Army DI system but out of Basic Training we ran many of our DI’s in to the ground, I ran in the middle I never had that second kick.
But, the inevitable, realty struck when I went to VN, no matter hard the training is it ain't as hard as the real thing.
26 yrs, built on a lie, and she's now a general.
She lied, she cheated, she's prospered. Great for morale, she's a poster child for honorable service. /s
She belongs in the brig.
I spent 30 minutes arguing with two men about her this morning. One was a 2008 Obama voter and the other's from Denmark.
disgusting isn;t it.
Officers are being promoted based on PC, as this admin knows the mroe officers they get which agrees with their agenda and teir homo agenda then the hqrder it is to throw them out.
What needs to bedone is to say we have had this roblem , that problem, fficers going after young recruits, sexual ffences etc and then say thissocial experiment did not work, it has distrupted the military but on the orders from the Generals I havedecided to stop allowing cross dressing and homosexuals to serve openly
We can stop this madness if the GOP got control and got some balls.
Anyone serving gets to stay in, their sexual life is no concern to us so shut up but if you do go out and shout about it then piss off.
No more openly serving homosexuals, no one being promoted and tell the public that this survey obama did was bogus, that many Generals did not want it and there has been many incidents on base to allow this to go on and thus we are putting a stop to this social experiment.
All it takes is guts and balls to mention this and stop this madness.
Congrats to her! She’ll die never knowing whether she was promoted because she was the best pick, or because she was a lesbian.
This is the legacy of affirmative action.
Some day there will be a real "first openly gay general," a person who entered once DADT was law or now that it's gone. It'll be someone who played by the rules (unlike Smith) and his or her checkbox achievement will not be noted.
sure has changed, hell when the British marines don’t accept women and now homosexuals get promtions even though they were lying then what does that say about what s going on to the military.
When I talked to that marine recruiter it sure made my eyes open.
I’ve never met such a pompous big headed, fool in the military than that guy
Telling me that my son would never be frced to share a room or a shower or a sleeping bag in survival training with a queer, that it;s great to have women next to you in combat even though they do not do the same tests to get there and then try to tell me that women do the same tests but later admits they do not.
I’m just thankful I’ve done my years and can look back at the good pals I made, the countries I went to and the things I did.
I feel sorry for my boys and their future and they’re still in school and feel sorry for my daughter who might never be able to find a decent guy in the future as many boys today are just girlie
Then they’re white , Christian, normal so basically they’re screwed.
Now, everone pretend this unnatural perversion is normal so we don’t damage their self esteem.
Not really a fair comparison. The Royal Marines are an elite light infantry commando force that specialises almost completely in combat (which is why there are no women). The USMC is like a whole separate branch of the military with its own logistics and support units and outside of the combat units the minimal fitness requirements and training for your average US Marine (not including the combat specialists) doesn't need to be anywhere near as tough as it has to be for your average Royal Marine.
I know I was with them for years, 42 comando mountain and arctic warfare cadre.
So we now have a general who for years, decades(?) violated military regulations!
I wonder how many other regulations/laws it has violated during its military career?
If it can violate known regulations just because of the feeling between its legs, just how little coercion would be required to make it become a traitor? I can see the scandal now: “General Court Marshaled for exchanging military secrets for batteries”
Seems the General assumes the authority to decide which laws/regulations apply to it.
While writing other people's FITREPs.
Ah, cool. Still, probably the time to worry is when actual infantry or other combat units have this kind of crappy minimal standard...
that what grates me so much, I see how the military is changing and though myoldest would love to go and seve 42 commando he will not get the benefits like here.
“The truth is that the cat is out of the bag, and no one can put it back in.”
They can at least try. This is just more cowardly surrender monkey talk to rationalize Romney’s horrid stances.
Still wondering why we’re losing in Afghanistan?
You may be old enough to recall that when the word “gay” was first introduced into popular use (it had been used in the homosexual community for decades, or perhaps even as long as a century, as a sort of tongue in cheek descriptor), it described male and only male homosexuals. When the lesbians started to appropriate it, the male homoes protested.
I suspected we had a true, blue Navy dude as “naps coordinator” because I know what a naps coordinator is!
Our family is a 30 yr Navy family...I served for 10 yrs....and retirement happened 5-6 yrs ago. With all this crap going on and, unfortunately, we know, personally, the flags who did it, the sighs of relief are loud around here but we weep for our Navy, country, troopers and sailors who will have to walk the tight rope and have a much harder time doing their job and keeping us all safe...or do we do that now being a “global force for GOOD”?
You come up with a lot of BS, but you offer no solutions. smart guy.
Disgusting perverts.
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