Combat troops to get gay sensitivity training

[BushMasterBoy]

If the next Commander in Chief is a Muslim and refuses to swear in on the Bible, I guess we will have to get him a Koran...we are all so insensitive. Infidels!

[Irving]

We should be blaming lawyers, for the amount of mostly useless "training" that people receive.

[sniper7]

Only if they think you're cute, Sniper.

H.

reminds me of the movie "American Wedding" hen stiffler does the dance off at the gay bar.

"I told you those guys wanted to fuck me!"

[sniper7]

I don't see what the big deal is. This training will take like one hour. You have to go through the same dumb training for every other job you get in your life; and it is like an hour lecture about not gabbing asses and talking about sex.

yeah but what about the weird stuff like when the gay guy next to you is taking a piss staring at your johnson...you aren't supposed to beat his ass?

or having the wall of nude or near nude hot women to make life away from home easier...now you have to pass by a wall with chip-n-dale like dudes as well...

I'm not really being too serious because I don't know if it would happen or if it were true, but either way, I still think the whole thing is...well...gay.

[sniper7]

If the next Commander in Chief is a Muslim and refuses to swear in on the Bible, I guess we will have to get him a Koran...we are all so insensitive. Infidels!

maybe they will start teaching it in schools. or maybe our children will have to go through gay sensitivity training...probably around middle school.

[brokenscout]

maybe they will start teaching it in schools. or maybe our children will have to go through gay sensitivity training...probably around middle school.

Or some shit like that, there always trying to slide something in. I swear when the elections were going , I think my kid thought it was the second coming of Christ. Obama this obama that, I asked him about McCain and he didn't know who it was.

[ldmaster]

they will invent for someone who completes this course, airborne, ranger, etc...

And what would the emblem be?

Now I suppose they'll have to create a new NSN for lube, and whether someone is sensitive to latex.

We did a few scared straight things once, and we would put a basketful of condoms on the table in the center pod, and make sure a used one or two would be visible in the holding cells where we'd put them to "cool off" before starting the verbal portions. Well, used in the sense that mayonnaise would be smeared on them. . .

This is such a wrong road to go down. I do absolutely see someone filing suit to have separate barracks for gay vs straight men and women, since the whole concept of seperate female/male facilities is the nature of sexuality - I dont want to take a shower with someone who even potentially sees me as a sexual partner, male OR female. It doesn't matter that they will be professional enough, it matters that I would feel that the potential exists.

Stupid stupid politicians playing games with america's fighting men and women. And, yeah, I've spoken to a few straight female military members that have said they HATE knowing that they're bunking with a lesbian, regardless of what the mainstream media will say about it. This isn't a male only issue.

[lebru]

We should be blaming lawyers, for the amount of mostly useless "training" that people receive.

This. They are really the only people to blame for this and really everything....

[Troublco]

Yeah, but my point is that this is a requirement for any new changes to any place, not even just the military. It's not like gays in the military is the ONLY thing that produced extra training.

I haven't been in the military, but you dare tell me that I don't have experience sitting in meetings all day long for stuff that doesn't even directly effect me, all while work is just piling up back at my desk. I'm no stranger to the concept of having a meeting, just to plan another meeting.

I'm trying to point out that it is pretty feeble to try and say, "See? I knew this was a bad idea." Just because there will be some training or a meeting as a side product.

My point is that this is another added requirement that is adding to the burden already in place.

You haven't been in the military, so I dare tell you that this is in ADDITION to all the BS meetings we already have, in addition to so much training for crap like this that it is evident you don't understand how much of an impact it has.

Trying to say this was a bad idea for the reason you stated may indeed be feeble, but that was not what I said. I was commenting on the fact that every time somebody comes up with a change, it directly impacts the people that already don't have enough time. My point is that having another training session simply because they allowed gays in the military openly is a waste. They could have done the same damn thing on a powerpoint slide show. Just like a bunch of others where somebody somewhere is protecting their oh-so-important little fiefdom.

It isn't lawyers, at least in the military it isn't. It's all the officers who don't have any idea what kind of a burden they've created with all their BS training requirements. Then they have to have countless meetings to discuss the burden we keep telling them they've created. They're like politicians, only no one elected them.

Sometimes people who have not been in the military, while thinking they know just exactly what it's like, DON'T.

[Drilldov2.0]

At eethze, thisters!