{"id":26407,"date":"2011-09-06T12:35:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T16:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26407"},"modified":"2011-09-06T12:35:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T16:35:53","slug":"millions-of-gays-poised-to-solve-our-military-manpower-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26407","title":{"rendered":"Millions of gays poised to solve our military manpower shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, wait, we don’t have a military manpower shortage, do we? But the New York Times<\/a>, in a link sent by TSO seems to think that there are “hundreds” of gays just waiting for Don’t Ask, Don’t tell to end;<\/p>\n

Yet despite their bitter partings with the armed forces, many gay men and lesbians who were discharged under the \u201cdon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u201d policy say they want to rejoin the service, drawn by a life they miss or stable pay and benefits they could not find in civilian life.<\/p>\n

By some estimates, hundreds of gay men and lesbians among the more than 13,000 who were discharged under the policy have contacted recruiters or advocacy groups saying they want to re-enlist after the policy is repealed on Sept. 20. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then they go on to give us five examples. One was outed with an anonymous email to his commander. Whoever did that was a chickenshit and the commander probably shouldn’t have discharged him based on a clearly vindictive email, another admitted he was outwardly gay among his unit. WIth the exception of the guy who was outed, the others who outed themselves shouldn’t be allowed back in the military because if they violated that policy, which was clearly in their favor if they were so excited to be in the military, who knows what policy they’ll violate next time because they disagree with it.<\/p>\n

I have nothing against gays being the military, I was opposed to people who can’t abide by the policy, any policy, serving. Dan Choi brought his troubles on himself, and he was obviously against all policies that restricted him from serving the way he saw fit…and he saw fit to punch a subordinate in the chest years before he decided that DADT was wrong. So allowing activists like Choi wear the uniform again goes against everything that holds the military together, in my view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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