It would seem that the U.S. military is chock full o’ incompetents. Or at least it is if its U.S. military members who talk like this:
“We are the military leaders in the world — everybody wants to be like us,” said Brian Jones, a retired sergeant major who served in the Army Rangers. “Why in the world would we try to adjust our military model to be like them?”
SgtMaj. Jones, you’re a chicken-shit, ignorant dumbass, and reason #1 why people have the view that only idiots join the U.S. military.
Seriously.
You’ll take an order to charge a hill under enemy fire, but you can’t follow orders to serve side by side with someone who’s gay? You’re so un-fucking-professional as a soldier that you can’t elevate your standards of excellence to serve alongside someone who’s gay?
“Don’t ask, don’t tell,” is an asinine policy that denies reality by engaging in willful ignorance—yet simultaneously damages plenty of people’s lives (not just the service members’). As a policy, it is a fucking joke.
In Britain, … gay and lesbian service members marched in crisp uniforms in the annual Pride London parade July 4.
And there was loud applause from all in attendance.
It seems that SgtMaj. Dumbass is saying the British military has better discipline and esprit de corps than the U.S. Army. I say bullshit.
BTW, I’m a combat veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and wholly disagree with DADT. I think it should be abolished completely in favor of a policy which allows service members to serve openly and with full access to all benefits for themselves and their partners.
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1 Gilgamesh // Aug 16, 2009 at 18:36 pm
I was in the US military in the mid 1970s when it was an even bigger deal about being gay. I used to ask those in charge what the problem was with having gay people in the military and was also answered with a variation of; “Because they are susceptible to blackmailing which would make them spy on US interests.”
Q. If their friends and families are OK with them being gay, how does blackmail come into the picture?
A. The gays would fear being exposed to their military superiors which would cause all sorts of negative actions.
Q. So if the military hierarchy quit being bothered by gay people the blackmail problem would go away?
A. Ah…er..its’ bad for discipline.
Thats how I always knew I won the argument when I heard the phrase: “Its’ bad for discipline.”
I thought about re-upping for a brief period, but, I had seen too much banal evil propagated by stupid people to stay.
2 Becca // Aug 16, 2009 at 21:57 pm
When I saw those gay military members marching in London’s Pride parade, I had that little pain of envy and sorrow. I come from a country where we’d persecute someone for doing what these people did, and in Britain, they are free to be themselves.
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