Repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell

About damn time....

I discussed this in detail back in May of this year.

It is FREAKING insane that we are kicking valuable service people out of military service because they HAPPEN to be gay.   As of May 26th, 2010 there have been 13,389 men and women officially discharged from the military who happen to be gay. 

To think that we have men and women putting their lives on the line for the United States of America and we have some IDIOTS in congress who likely NEVER served in the military that believe these patriots should be kicked out is absolutely nuts.   Just one example of this is that we are losing Amercian soldiers lives because we are losing Mideast translators who, again, just happen to be gay.  John McCain's flip flop view on this is the ultimate example of what he will do in order to be elected...

As the popular t-shirts state, "You Don't Have To Be Straight To Shoot Straight."

Bob Gates and Admiral McMullen are exactly right in their views.

John McCain will be on the same side of history as those politicians who wanted to keep blacks out of the military.

27 March 1950 Secretary of the Army Gray ordered the service to open its recruiting without regard to race. He did so after winning President Truman’s agreement to a proviso that the Army could reinstitute a racial quota if the new policy resulted in "a disproportionate balance of racial strengths."

In September 1977, men and women began training in the same basic training units at Fort McClellan and Fort Jackson and in October 1978 at Fort Dix and Fort Leonard Wood. Enlistment qualifications became the same for men and women by order of the Secretary of the Army on 1 October 1979. An act of Congress passed in October 1975 directing the Academy to accept women into its training program in 1976. The first women cadets graduated form the United States Military Academy, West Point New York in 1980. Since then, women have continued to enter every class at the United States Military Academy. In August 1982, the Secretary of Defense ordered the increase in Army enlisted women’s strength from 65,000 to 70,000 and officers from 9,000 to 13,000, including medical personnel.