Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Ends today.
Now I have never served, but from what I hear the only thing that this REALLY effects is demanding gay soldiers lie about who’s waiting at home for them, and maybe be a little less fearful when on leave off-base.
As for all the sexual disasters on military bases, I think it sounds more an issue of selective enforcement, rather than gay cooties or what women are doing to service, but that’s just how I see it, correct me if I’m wrong.
Personally, having served with LGBT people decades ago (who KNEW if the opened their mouth they would be hammered, yet they still served the Republic well)), this issue comes down to A) Will someone in a Position of Authority demand Sexual favors from a Subordinate or ELSE, and B) I never heard of a Trigger malfunctioning due to the Sexual Orintation of the person pulling it.
A) The regs on Fraternization still apply, no matter who’s Pitching and who’s Catching, and B,) “God didn’t make all men equal, Col. Colt did.”
Same crap went down about Blacks in the Military, then Women, and now LGBT. A decade from now, one will wonder what all the fuss was about.
Well given that we have had openly women servicemen, there are already rules against that sexual favor nonsense. (Then again, I know you were an enlisted man, so I suspect you’re giving a well-deserved ribbing)
I hope, and suspect, you’re right about the blacks/woman historical hoopla.
I personally was kicked out under DADT, and it was political BS. I knew 6 lesbians, hell one took and introduced her Girlfriend at the Unit Picnic. It was nothing more then idiocy, either a straight no, or a straight yes. DADT was worse then saying no.
If you were male you worried constantly, female refer to the picnic for what happens.
And since congress and DOD have spent so much time playing grab ass on this I know personally I can not rejoin, I’ve been talking to recruiters for months trying. I’ve just hit my deadline to get back in to service.
That sucks! Well it appears that your story is going to be one of the last.
BTW what kind of discharge is a DADT Discharge?
The discharge type depends on how you get outed and your unit. I was lucky to get an honorable, the Army was a lot of general discharges and less than honorable. If you get caught say “in the act” then its usually not honorable.
Actually sounds fair if you overlook the Byzantine nature of giving a shit about who somebody finds attractive, given that if ANYBODY gets caught “in the saddle” they can get a not honorable discharge. Again there’s selective enforcement of this which should end. But on its face its there, but I’m sure gay sex is ALWAYS viewed differently as hetero sex.
Still too bad a willing and able body was turned away from service by something so trivial.
I wonder what special group is going to get singled out next? There can’t be too many more…