{"id":21651,"date":"2010-12-28T08:52:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T12:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21651"},"modified":"2010-12-28T08:52:59","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T12:52:59","slug":"washington-times-sf-wary-of-dadt-repeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21651","title":{"rendered":"Washington Times: SF wary of DADT repeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times has an article this morning which declares “Special forces wary of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ repeal<\/a>” in which they interview several military members about their reaction to the repeal of the DADT policy. This statement is probably the prevalent view;<\/p>\n

“If an open gay does his job, I think he’ll be accepted,” said retired Rear Adm. George R. Worthington, a former Navy SEAL. At retirement in 1992, Adm. Worthington commanded the Naval Special Warfare Command, the unit that mints new SEALs in a demanding qualification process.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think there is going to be that many of them that want to sign up for SEALs anyway because of the closeness and the tightness of the training,” Adm. Worthington said.<\/p>\n

“My opinion is that they’re probably more clerical oriented. Medical profession. Corpsmen. Stuff like that.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that’s the kind of stuff the gay community is looking for – something that makes them seem different from straight folks, which is true, but they don’t want anyone saying it outloud.<\/p>\n

One Special Operations soldier echoed my concerns;<\/p>\n

The first Green Beret commando said the military does not even know how many gays are in the active force, making it difficult to target education programs. “So is it worth the strains, is it worth the cost, especially at a period in time when combat soldiers are indeed stressed and the economy is in bad shape?” the officer said.<\/p>\n

“My rhetorical question is, ‘Why couldn’t we have waited until a period of relative peace to implement these changes? That’s what we did with racial integration; that’s what we did to go to an all-volunteer force.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The only reason DADT became such a huge issue this year was because of the political climate, it had nothing to do with readiness or national security, no matter how much Vote Vets said otherwise.<\/p>\n

The Times included TSO’s and Blackfive’s favorite quote from the Defense Department’s survey;<\/p>\n

“Anecdotally, we heard much the same. As one special-operations force warfighter told us, ‘We have a gay guy [in the unit]. He’s big, he’s mean, and he kills lots of bad guys. No one cared that he was gay.’ “<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I agree that if gays who join the military confine themselves to their mission, they’ll probably do fine, but if they step outside those confines and try to become culture warriors, like Dan Choi or Autumn Sandeen, they won’t be accepted and this will end as a costly experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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