{"id":18055,"date":"2010-03-18T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18055"},"modified":"2010-03-18T05:00:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T10:00:47","slug":"questionable-dadt-poll-at-vv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18055","title":{"rendered":"Questionable DADT poll at VV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the blog post at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vetvoice.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=3832\">VetsVoice<\/a> yesterday in regards to the poll VoteVets commissioned about the question of the military&#8217;s Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell policy among younger troops and veterans. Just because it was a VV poll and the fact that showed exactly what VV wanted it to show made it suspect. Luckily, Bruse Kesler at <a href=\"http:\/\/maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com\/archives\/13911-Suspect-Poll-Doesnt-AskDoesnt-Tell-P.S.Actual-Service-Demographics.html\">Maggie&#8217;s Farm<\/a> saw it, too, and decided to break it down for us;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. Its service composition is off. The poll has the following service who say they served in Iraq or Afghanistan, 50% Army, 12% Marines, 18% Navy, 22% Air Force.  According to Stars and Stripes in March 2008, for example, when most who\u2019d served had been in Iraq, 73% were in the Army, 18% in the Marines, 3% in the Navy, and 6% in the Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>2. The poll does not distinguish those in combat units (although many in non-combat units often were subject to hostile fire).  One of the key considerations regarding Don\u2019t Ask\/Don\u2019t Tell is how it may affect combat effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>3. The methodology of the poll is clouded. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the blog post at VetsVoice yesterday in regards to the poll VoteVets commissioned about &hellip; <a title=\"Questionable DADT poll at VV\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18055\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Questionable DADT poll at VV<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}