{"id":17113,"date":"2010-01-31T17:09:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T22:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17113"},"modified":"2010-01-31T17:09:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T22:09:20","slug":"more-news-on-dont-ask-dont-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17113","title":{"rendered":"More News On Don’t Ask Don’t Tell"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my last post<\/a>, I addressed some of the big issues concerning how the DoD would go about repealing DADT. According to an article from the AP, the DoD has apparently begun to address some of the same issues<\/a> that I brought up in my previous post. I am happy to hear that the DoD is at least making the right noises in preparing for a potential lifting of DADT. Gates and Adm Mullen are also going to testify in front of the Senate Armed Service Committee<\/a> on the issues facing the military in regards to DADT. I still believe (and so do most political commentators including the author of the AP article I link to) that there will not be any changes to DADT this year. The focus is obviously on the economy and the 2010 election and I realistically don’t see the Democrats in Congress or the President making repealing DADT a centerpiece of their 2010 agenda.<\/p>\n

My personal feelings on DADT are a bit conflicted and my mind is not completely made up on the issue. I do not believe that homosexuals should be allowed to serve in combat arms units or on submarines. I don’t believe this because I buy into a stereotype of gay men\/women as “weak” or “girlie”. The living conditions in these units\u00a0 do not allow for the ability to segregate gay and straight soldiers\/sailors\/Marines and adding sexual tension (and I don’t care what anybody says that tension will exist no matter how many people say otherwise) to an already stressful environment that exists in these combat units is a dangerous mix. These are some of the same reasons why we do not allow women to serve in combat arms units. On the issue of gays serving in other MOSes, I am not sure that this would effect the capability of some of these units. Again, I spent my four years in security force and infantry units, so my experience with non-combat arms MOSes is limited, but nobody can argue that they operate differently. I certainly don’t believe that there should be quotas for gay enlisted and officer promotions to insure that there isn’t discrimination against them. There is so many things wrong with that I don’t even know where to start with that one. The military is meritocracy (thats why many on the left dislike it) and promotions should be based on ability not on race, sexual orientation, or anything else. I also don’t believe that men and women who were discharged under DADT should be allowed to reenlist\/recommission. Right or wrong, they violated a stated DoD policy by revealing their sexual orientation. The only exception I would make is the ones who were maybe involuntarily outed.\u00a0 If the United States were to legalize pot, should we let everybody who was kicked out because of drug pop on a piss test? Absolutely not.<\/p>\n

Again, the overall point I want to make on DADT is that is far from a simple issue that can just be changed overnight. There are serious implication for our military, which is currently engaged in active combat operations all over the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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