There was a time when senior British Officers had the courage to speak openly on this subject, but they are now so frightened of losing their pensions they give tacit support for something that hardly ever crosses the squaddy's brow.
If they can do the job, all's well and good. But experience shows that the lesbian clans use their sexuality to intimidate the heterosexual comrades into timidity. The presentation to a woman soldier of a Green Beret angered the Commandos so intensely that many refused to wear their hard earned rewards.
There are only 35,000 sailors available for very few ships. HMS Cornwall should have taught us what bad leadership and cocooning female sailors did more to jeopardise the mission than enhancing the reputation of the Andrew and the Marines. What those who have never fought for anything cannot envisage is that reputations can save lives. What is the worth of that reputation now with a possible enemy in Iran?
Service Chiefs Tell Panel of Risks to ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Repeal
WASHINGTON — The commandant of the Marine Corps and the chiefs of staff of the Army and Air Force sternly warned a Senate panel on Friday that now was not the time to allow gay men and women to serve openly in the armed forces.
But in a hearing about whether to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the 17-year-old policy that requires gay or bisexual military men and women to keep their sexual orientation secret or face discharge, all three said the military should, or at least could, repeal the law in the future.
General Casey, whose views carry weight because he commands the largest of the services, concluded that the military could handle repeal with “moderate risk” to its ability to do its job. A Pentagon study released this week on the effect of repeal concluded that the risk would be low, an assessment shared by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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