{"id":21372,"date":"2010-12-01T20:40:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T00:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21372"},"modified":"2010-12-01T20:45:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T00:45:07","slug":"the-deceit-of-the-dadt-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21372","title":{"rendered":"The deceit of the DADT study"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all heard Secretary Gates tell us that most of the troops don’t think that repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell won’t affect the military’s readiness. So Organizing For America couldn’t wait to jump on that tiny fact;<\/p>\n

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The Washington Times<\/a> however sees it differently;<\/p>\n

The Pentagon survey of all troops, be they in desk jobs or in the field, found about 70 percent said open gays would have positive, mixed or no effect on unit cohesion.<\/p>\n

By contrast, combat troops, who live in intimate surroundings while deployed, overwhelming reported that open gays would undermine military readiness, or preparedness for combat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

60% of the Army and Marines think that gays would have an effect on readiness. I wonder why factoring in the Air Force and Navy would dilute the opposition to repealing the policy. Hey! I’m just wondering. Don’t get your nose bent out of shape, there, fella.<\/p>\n

The Army is further diluted by it’s large number of REMFs – I heard the ratio of combat arms soldiers to REMFs is 1:7. I have no reference, but it sounds right. <\/p>\n

But this goes to my post yesterday – why do it now if it effects readiness and while we’re engaged in a war? The people who actually pull triggers disagree with the desk jockeys. In fact that’s what the whole study boils down to; people who don’t care about the military (OFA, Congress, the White House, VoteVets) and REMFs against the people who actually face the enemy. <\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong, I know it’s only a matter of time that punk-asses like Dan Choi (who I would throat punch even if he was a breeder) get their way. I’m just questioning the timing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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