woodjack
Senior Member
No doubt that there are, And as long as they do not identify themselves as such no one will ever care. They do not need special treatment and special rules to serve.
DADT is a "special" rule.
Under DADT you are still kicking out qualified soldiers for issues that have nothing to do with their ability to do the job
Really? Under DADT that were released, 8 people that I have been associated with in the past 15 years were not qualified to mop a floor. They hated their job, they hated the dorms, they hated the state they now lived in, they did not care at all about the mission. And not because of DADT its because they hated the military life period. Have you every tried to train a person that just hated being at work? Impossible and a waste of my time period. Now if DADT did not exist I would have wasted a year of training, time, resources and man hours to make a paper trail big enough to get the person kicked out, keeping me away from the mission at hand. And it would take another 6 months for outprocessing and more resources to finally give the person a boot. And in each of those 8 cases that I have dealt with the person came out to get out period, they went and told to get a way out of a life they did not like. From my experience these people still lived their lifestyle with no problem. No one bothered them.
Now this is not the entire gay military population I realise that and I most likely work next to a gay guy or gal now. But I do not care, I do not want to hear about it, I just want to do my job and go home. This issue is a non issue and should not even be a big deal. Why is it that gay people want to tell everyone they are gay? Who cares!
Keep it or do away with it, I do not care, but really openly gay in the military what the heck does that even mean?
of the people that were kicked out because of DADT I am willing to bet that over 95% are people that just hated military life not because they hated the DADT Program. Now what really pisses me off is that they are given an Honorable discharge for not even completing an enlistment, seriously it should be a general discharge.
If they do away with it will it affect the Military negatively?, Nope, maybe at first their will be some unfortunate incidents but it won't do a thing. I am sick of hearing about it and sick of people saying that it is discrimination when in all actuality it is a non-issue.
Now if they do away with it, what next? Will Gay couples get to move in base housing? Increase BAH rates of married Gay couples? Gay night at the NCO club/Officers Club, gay Pride month, Gay Awareness training, Gay couples and tricare, Gay lifeskills training......I could go on and on with all the training the military has for things. When will this Insanity stop?
Just do your job and go home! either way about DADT, I do not care, But I can see the can of worms opening or pandoras box or whatever you want to call it, for all the new training that will have to be implemented and more time is taken from the mission at hand.