[syptopsygieds]

Can't believe it's still alive.

[hasasnn2345tv]

The military is largely conservative, and largely a boys club. It makes perfect sense that its still around despite the policy making no sense at all. I've never heard a good argument for it.

[xtrudood]

I'm not sure why a canadian would care so much about the US military's DADT policy.

[skupaemauto]

My impression was that the US army had no issues with gays--see e.g. McChrystal and the article on him which discusses his support (and that of his staff) for an open policy. I haven't seen any recent articles or statements in support of the "don't ask don't tell" policy by members of the military.

From March of this year, Zevico:

http://www.military.com/news/article...-barracks.html

The Marine Corps' top officer said March 25 that even if the ban on openly-serving gays in the services is lifted, he would draw the line at forcing heterosexual Marines to bunk with gays on base.

"We want to continue [two-person rooms], but I would not ask our Marines to live with someone who is homosexual if we can possibly avoid it," Marine Commandant Gen. James Conway told Military.com during an exclusive interview at the Pentagon. "And to me that means we have to build BEQs [bachelor enlisted quarters] and have single rooms." As you can see, his concern is about barracks living.

"In this case, I would want to reserve the right of a Marine that thinks he or she wouldn't want to [share a room with a homosexual]. And again that's the overwhelming … number of people that say that they wouldn't like to do so." Conway said the Corps billets two-to-a-room -- unique today among the services -- because it believes it's good for unit cohesion. But if a gay Marine sharing a room with a straight one has the opposite effect, the Corps will adopt the single-room standard of the other services. Conway said he expects the working group established by Gates to look at repealing DADT will provide the services "with more data than ever before about how our people think and what the impact of the change might be." But after conducting numerous town hall-style meetings around the Corps with Sgt. Maj. of the Marine Corps Carlton Kent, Conway believes most Marines have real concerns about gays serving openly.

He said they routinely ask the Marines three questions: Do they believe repealing Don't Ask will adversely impact good order and discipline? Will repeal have an adverse impact on unit cohesion? And would they be willing to share a room with a Marine who has declared himself or herself a homosexual?

"An overwhelming number of Marines have significant concerns about those issues," Conway said. "If perception is reality, we just think our Corps would not want to see a change."

[TodeImmabbedo]

It's a matter of principle. I'd be upset if they forbade jews or blacks from serving as well.

[njfeedd3w]

If they can meet the physical requirements.

[Immonnaornach]

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