Quote Originally Posted by Ronin13 View Post
Touche! We had a kid who tried hand and foot to get out during AIT, he was gay, and when he went to the CDR she (yes, that's right, we had a female CDR in AIT and she was HOT! ya know, for an officer lol) told him "Don't tell me, you have to be caught in the act." So he went AWOL for a day came back during our evening formation with a civilian boy and they started making out right in front of everyone. Needless to say his chapter paperwork began a few moments later and he was gone in a week. Didn't much matter to me. He was nice to me, never made any unwanted advances at me, so it didn't affect me. I have a couple friends who are combat fairies (not my term, they use it on themselves), and have no issues with them, in fact they serve just as proudly as everyone else.

The issue I have is the leagues of closed minded individuals, such as the Army Times poll that showed over 65% of those polled would not re-enlist if DADT were repealed. Shows that they just don't understand there are already gays serving, and it hasn't been detrimental to unit cohesion or moral thus far, so why should it change if they are serving openly? Seeing as how our unit had a pair of females attracted to each other, caught in the act during a field exercise, and really nothing happened! And they were NCO's to boot... really the only black mark for them was a command directive to stay away from each other while on duty and one was moved to a different company. No skin off my back either way.
My thought pattern on this was people being "openly gay" in a professional environment. I don't go around spouting how strait I am and I don't expect someone to go rub their preference in my face. I worked and knew people in my unit that were gay, but they kept it professional. I Didnt get out due to this, but I can see where if it got to the point that people were using it as leverage I would probably not reenlist either. Already have plenty of people in the military using race and sex as leverage now you got this too. Also don't get me wrong not everyone uses the race card or "i cant do that im a woman", but it is rather irritating that when your treated as an equal you try to use personal attributes to your advantage.