{"id":23042,"date":"2011-04-23T14:01:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T18:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23042"},"modified":"2011-04-23T14:01:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T18:01:53","slug":"how-the-marines-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23042","title":{"rendered":"How the Marines DO IT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/news\/-297473--.html\" target=\"_blank\">Marines&#8217; \u2018Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8217; repeal training revealed<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Getting straight to the point, male-on-male kissing is the first scenario Marines are discussing at <a title=\"Camp Pendleton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cpp.usmc.mil\/\">Camp Pendleton<\/a> as they learn about the repeal of &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; and what it means for them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Marines may also have to get used to living with an openly gay  service member, recruiters could be punished for barring enlistees that  talk about being gay and early discharges may not be granted for those  that disagree with the repeal, according to <a title=\"training materials\" href=\"http:\/\/files.onset.freedom.com\/ocregister\/DADT_Tier_3_Script_Final.pdf\">training materials<\/a> released this month by the Marine Corps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No one can convince me that this is somehow a good thing, but it <strong>IS<\/strong> simply the way things are for those currently serving. Reading through the training materials didn&#8217;t offer any real surprises either.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a title=\"The Rand study\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rand.org\/pubs\/monographs\/MG1056.html\">The Rand study<\/a> estimated that five percent of the military&#8217;s male population is gay and 10 percent of the female population is lesbian.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m certain this training will return many fold the the time and money spent on it  in the form of added combat efficiency and esprit de corps&#8230; <strong>for that 5 percent, at least.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marines&#8217; \u2018Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8217; repeal training revealed Getting straight to the point, male-on-male kissing is &hellip; <a title=\"How the Marines DO IT!\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23042\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How the Marines DO IT!<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23042","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}