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The Price We Pay For Homophobia
Political Animal — ... , and linguists because it doesn't like their sexual orientation. This isn't just unfair; at a time when we're fighting two wars and short of trained personnel, it's stupid. Frankly, I wish the military would revise its physical requirements altogether: they are just full of bizarre manifestations of the idea that the military should be the guardian of sexual and genital normalcy. As I've noted ...

The Price We Pay For Homophobia
Obsidian Wings — ... , and linguists because it doesn't like their sexual orientation. This isn't just unfair; at a time when we're fighting two wars and short of trained personnel, it's stupid. ...

C'est la vie
Obsidian Wings — ... " on Don't Ask, Don't Tell.  It's been sixteen years since the policy was implemented.  The policy has been adequately perspectived.  Unless you like your army Arabic-linguist-free (or, at least, reduced), it ain't working.  ...

McCain: ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Has ‘Been Working And I Think It’s Been Working Well’
Think Progress — ... ,” such as pilots, combat engineers, and linguists. According to a 2005 report from the Government Accountability Office, “the cost of discharging and replacing service members fired because of their sexual orientation during the policy’s first 10 years totaled at least ...

Gaze Upon the Military
Indiana Barrister — ... openly in the military was that homosexuality was incompatible with military service.  Tell that to the Israelis, the Dutch, the English, the Swiss and a dozens of other nations that don’t have such a ban and seem to function quite well.  And if my history serves me correct wasn’t Alexander the Great gay and he went on to conquer the known world?  Doesn’t seem like much of a compatibility issue there? I would also think that in the age of the War on Terror, you wouldn’t have time to discriminate against someone over sexual orientation who can speak several Middle Eastern ...