Comments on: Military Service Issue – Sixty Years Ago This Month http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/07/23/2416 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Sat, 18 May 2013 21:32:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Regan DuCasse http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/07/23/2416/comment-page-1#comment-14042 Regan DuCasse Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:16:17 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/07/23/2416#comment-14042 Could it be called forced co habitation if the military service is ALL volunteer? The draft was a service forced on all those eligible. The integration of the services was a military culture, finally NOT conceding to the prejudice that black men were not brave, willing or responsible enough to serve effectively at all. With an all volunteer military, recruits need not sign up knowing there will be openly gay service people. DADT is less an option BECAUSE ordinary curiosity and distrust of who is what gets the better of some people. Nope, openness and honesty serves the voluntary situation best and no military should allow conceding to prejudice in the first place. Isn't that what basic discipline is all about? Could it be called forced co habitation if the military service is ALL volunteer?

The draft was a service forced on all those eligible. The integration of the services was a military culture, finally NOT conceding to the prejudice that black men were not brave, willing or responsible enough to serve effectively at all.
With an all volunteer military, recruits need not sign up knowing there will be openly gay service people. DADT is less an option BECAUSE ordinary curiosity and distrust of who is what gets the better of some people.

Nope, openness and honesty serves the voluntary situation best and no military should allow conceding to prejudice in the first place.
Isn’t that what basic discipline is all about?

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