DADT

[jachyra]

Since the president repealed Dont Ask, Don't Tell the military has been working on integrating the new order into the system. Military law has to be reviewed and rewritten, these changes must be taught down through the ranks so every soldier from general to private knows what they should be doing

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[tkie]

Devil's Advocate: If a gay soldier has to self-censor at all times in order to keep his or her job in the military, that strikes me as a pretty huge and unnecessary diversion for that person. Perhaps you're all losing a few hours now, but the people most affected by the policy change will be deeply affected.

True...

[jachyra]

...but the unit matters far more than the individual in the Army.

I'm stuck on "Democracy. We're here to protect it, not practice it." That goes for individuality, fairness, and other priviledges we fight for civilians to have.

[carmenwoods]

So, what, having a few training sessions to let potential troublemakers know how to behave is worse, and more of a diversion, than having to deal with replacing unit members who get kicked out for being gay, or establishing their replacements, or spending resources on hearings to determine whether someone is gay and should be kicked out, or having part of a unit under-performing or making mistakes because they're stressed about being ratted out by an angry ex or relative?

Is it not worth a small diversion now to increase the overall longterm efficiency and effectiveness of the military as a whole? Don't you think that not having to give a shit now over what color one of your unit members is is a benefit that outweighs whatever "training diversions" occurred during integration of the military?

Come on, dude, the military's job might be to break things and kill people, but what point is it if it's so incredibly distanced from the people it's supposed to be breaking things for that it can't even handle allowing a guy to be open about

[jachyra]

To answer your first question: yes. Spending the time and effort to retrain hundreds of thousands of soldiers in new doctrine, not to mention making up this new doctrine, is worse than being fair to such a small community

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