Gays in the military.
This will be a post that might get me slammed left, right and sideways. Let's start with this news item.
I originally enlisted Dec. 20, 1970, retiring Jan. 31, 1993. Almost every damned command I served on had peterpuffers and fudgepackers that everyone knew of but were never bothered by. The "gay blades" kept it in their pants till they were on their home turf. What happened there only God knows and (thankfully) He ain't telling. They wanted to stay in the military and were competent in their jobs so nobody gave a damn what they did once they were ashore. More often than not it was an open secret that everyone would joke about, including the homosexuals.
Having said all that I'll make the observation that "don't ask, don't tell" was a joke to start with. The formal revocation of that assinine policy will now open the door for the agenda driven homosexuals to push for more concessions from the military.
During my 22 years in the canoe club I saw vastly different standards of conduct applied to white males as opposed to females and minorities. Quite often there needed to be no formal policy for this, it was just cowardly senior personnel running scared at the thought of someone calling them a bigot.
With the revoking of "don't ask, don't tell" we'll see a lot more of the same with the gay community.
It was an act of stupidity to formally create this policy in the first place. Let the damned thing die a quiet death.
Homosexuality was best addressed by an old chief who gave an indoctrination lecture to my recruit company during the first week of boot camp. As I best recall, the lecture went along these lines (and the emphasis was his);
"If you are caught committing an act of theft you will be prosecuted under the Uniform Code of Military Justice."
If you are caught committing an act of assault you will be prosecuted under the Uniform Code of Military Justice."
If you are caught committing an act of adultery you will be prosecuted under the Uniform Code of Military Justice."
If you are caught engaging in homosexual acts you will be prosecuted under the Uniform Code of Military Justice."
And on and on and on.... The damned thing took about an hour, theres a lot to cover in the UCMJ.
Every good sailor knows the Eleventh Commandment; "Thou shalt not get caught."
Yes, I was a good sailor.
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my only comment is this
no comment.
(I love you dear)
I don't know about the Navy experience, but in the Army we had 'em too.
The bst platoon Sargeant I ever had kinda liked the matching plumbing thing.
We generally had more problems with the drunks than the Light (Loafer) Brigade.
The only exception was when there was an overlap (1 person out of about 30) in our 5000 man unit's little cirlce of friends wtih a German circle of aminal Lovers who Liked Kids. That created a Mess in the Mess!
Good at their job, kept it away from the flag pole, etc.
I'd like, (then and now) to see the Military crack down on adultery and pandering--it causes more problems than homsexuality.
But I will always say that having Gay sex is a Moral Wrong, and against the Natural and Devine Law.
I've had queers try to get into the stall I was taking a shit in, and reach into my rack and grope me in my rack in the dark when I was sleeping. IMHO sodomites are prejudicial to good order and discipline and have no place in the service.
Mightymom, thanks sweetheart.
Ignorant Redneck, ditto on it being morally wrong and against natural & divine law.
Sonarman, there were a few of the type you're describing at my various commands also, the ones with a taste for "sea food". They were gotten rid of asap. The ones who kept it in their pants were tolerated.
I'm not saying openly gay sailors have a place in the military and I won't speak for the other services. My point is that by pandering to their constituents and formally removing the current "don't ask, don't tell" policy, Congress will play into the hands of those actively pushing the gay agenda. We'll soon see a lot of the same crap we did with the big push to have women integrated in all parts of the military, and I'm talking about preferential treatment, different standards of conduct, etc.
As stated in my original post, we won't even need any formal directives coming from Washington. The spineless fools out in the fleet who are just marking time and getting their tickets punched for eventual promotion will implement the different standards, etc. all by themselves.
As usual, our military will suffer from it.
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