geauxtohell
Choose your weapon.
Combat VETS! Is that what you are depending on? What happens when they are gone? If they don't like the rules of the all volunteer social club and find employment elsewhere, then what? If one of those combat vets flattens the little flamer grabbing his crotch you AGREE that the vet shouldn't be in the service. When the military has been cleansed of men have you thought about what will be left?
Since the ultimate purpose of the military is to fight our wars, yes. Admittedly, there are some people in the military who treat their service as a 20 year government job with retirement and benefits. I suppose that it might be easier for such people to lose sight of the actual mission.
For people like you, who have never been in combat, you have no actual perspective about what you are bitching about. This is further compounded by the fact that you have been sold a bill of fucking goods by conservative windpipes (who have never served) about what military service is about. It's a completely distorted view. The military is not some sort of GOP/conservative axillary group that is constantly being harassed by the regulations of the liberals. On the line and in combat, no one has time to give two fucks about how someone votes, what color they are, or who they sleep with.
You also don't get this little fact: good soldiers follow lawful orders whether they agree with them or not. A soldier who can not follow orders doesn't want to be a member of the team. He wants to be an individual. If he can't follow a small order like following the laws of the land (which includes not using drugs, not accosting people (grabbing a crotch), not assaulting people, or not driving drunk), he won't follow big orders in combat (like keeping his weapon clean) and will get people killed. Ability to follow little orders is just a barometer to ensure a soldier will do the right thing when it's a whole hell of a lot more stressful. You think the major life stressors in a soldier's life are who his buddy decides to fuck? You don't have a clue. The really stressful stuff involves pondering a ramp ceremony and your weeping wife and family or a lifetime without limbs or eyesight.
So yeah, combat matters. Everything else is just training.
I am glad you never served. You might have been my problem to deal with. You clearly don't get it.
Of course I get it. The military is becoming a nicely organized social club where the orgasm enjoyed by the members takes precedence over any other discipline. It's the law of the land! The military is supposed to follow orders. Just change the orders! Give some training in how to react when two guys start making out in the mess hall or getting it on in the shower. Training, tolerance, sensitivity, compassion, caring. Not all that awful rough stuff. It is all about changing the military culture. Start with gay clubs, then put fighting men in fake tits and bellies. Anyone who doesn't get it by now is unwilling to get it.
It's not like this hasn't happened before. It's been going on for years. We have certainly seen where it goes. The military is late to the party. The police have been changing the culture for 20 years. Unless you think there is some difference between a military battlefield death and an urban street battlefield death your postulations make no sense. Clue one, they are both STILL DEAD and the surviving family all get a nicely folded flag.
Tell me how making the military less effective and more gay friendly is going to make the nation safer? I'm interested because making the police less effective and more gay friendly hasn't made any cities safer.
First you have to support your a priori that getting rid of DADT makes the military less effective. I don't really care about your " fake tits" rant. It's not Germaine.
The mission continues. Those who can't get with the program can go somewhere else.
Just as was the case in 1954.