The DADT repeal cluster
The Associated Press reports that the Pentagon is gearing up for a plan to train straight folks to live and work with gays in the military;
Details have been scarce as the military has scrambled to pull together the dozens of legal and policy changes that must be made by all the services in order to put the new law into effect.
The changes affect how troops are recruited, trained and discharged, as well as how same sex partners will be treated in terms of various health and other benefits.
Some will be easy to implement. For example, recruits will no longer be turned down because they are gay.
But others involving benefits, housing and the execution of the training program will be more complex.
Yeah, that doesn’t sound disruptive at all, does it? What with thousands of troops moving into and out of a combat zone at any given time, this sounds like it won’t affect readiness even a little bit. I thought gays were just like us and they only wanted to be treated like the rest of us. Then why all of this drama to “train” people to tolerate people who claim they’ve been among us the whole time?
I remember when the Army started training us on race relations (back in the late 70s) and the only thing their training did was infuriate everyone involved and made matters worse. Especially since there was no real problem to begin with.
Category: Military issues
I’ve always laughed, or chortled to be accurate, when folks have used the desegregation of the armed forces as an example of the supposed ease of DADT repeal. If the desegregation of the armed forces was so easy, why do we still have EO classes every five damn minutes around here. Why do I have to sit in a meeting where a CSM goes on and on about how terrible this E9 list is because the 10 selectees are all white. No mention of whether they were the most qualified for promotion or mention of a lack of qualified minority E8s. We’re already having meetings about this repeal and I typically try not to loose all my quickly diminishing military bearing during them or fall into the bitter old retired guy mode. On another note, the pool for the first openly gay CSM promo is growing rapidly.
Why do I have to sit in a meeting where a CSM goes on and on about how terrible this E9 list is because the 10 selectees are all white. No mention of whether they were the most qualified for promotion or mention of a lack of qualified minority E8s.
Um Finrod? You may or may not be aware of it but, that CSM gave all of you one hell of an inside look at that particular person’s character….Just a thought.
Did I mention that I am retired?
oy vey.
Jon Soltz should be a subject matter expert.
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Well, Obama recently signed the bill that allows gays to serve openly in the Military. No more don’t ask don’t tell. What he has really done is cause more confusion in the ranks. This is what now can happen. So for the moment, imagine …
You’re in a combat situation, the enemy is firing at you, and running toward your position…
The guy next to you is openly gay, when someone yells out…
“Shoot the cocksucker!”
Now do you see the confusion?
@ #2, If it was only him, I would concur but it isn’t, particularly amongst the folks who actually sit on the promotion boards.
Obama never should have flipped this DADT policy around while we are at war. I am sure it is another scheme of his to try to keep Democrats or himself in the white house in 2012, but that was a dangerous move. Do you agree or not?
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