Speaking of openly serving homosexuals, interviewed marines said, \u201cThey won\u2019t hold up well in combat\u201d and \u201cMaybe they should just take the same route they take with females and stick them to noncombat units.\u201d Oh dear, these Marines are clearly prime candidates for \u201cre-education\u201d.<\/p>\n
From here<\/a> (my emphasis):<\/p>\n But Private Carias, 18, has one major concern: gay men, he says, should not be allowed to serve in front-line combat units.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThey won\u2019t hold up well in combat,\u201d he said. <\/strong><\/p>\n That view, or variations on it, was expressed repeatedly in interviews with Marines around this town<\/strong>, home to Camp Lejeune, and outside Camp Pendleton in Southern California on Sunday.<\/p>\n Most of the approximately two dozen Marines interviewed said they personally did not object to gay men or lesbians serving openly in the military. But many said that introducing the possibility of sexual tension into combat forces would be disruptive, <\/strong>an argument made by the commandant of the Marine Corps a week before the historic repeal was passed by the Senate on Saturday and sent to President Obama for his signature. \u2026.<\/p>\n In the interviews, the Marines also argued that front-line units living in cramped outposts were encouraged to be extremely tight knit to better protect one another. An openly gay man \u2014 only men can serve in combat units \u2014 might feel out of place and as a result disrupt that cohesion, they argued.<\/p>\n \u201cComing from a combat unit, I know that in Afghanistan we\u2019re packed in a sardine can,\u201d said Cpl. Trevor Colbath, 22, a Pendleton-based Marine who returned from Afghanistan in August. \u201cThere\u2019s no doubt in my mind that openly gay Marines can serve, it\u2019s just different in a combat unit. Maybe they should just take the same route they take with females and stick them to noncombat units.\u201d…..<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cShowers will be awkward,\u201d Private Tuck said outside a shopping mall here, expressing a worry mentioned by just about every Marine interviewed. \u201cBut as long as a guy can hold his own and protect my back, it won\u2019t matter if he is gay.\u201d<\/p>\n But a friend of Private Tuck\u2019s injected a note of skepticism. \u201cIt won\u2019t be totally accepted,\u201d said Pvt. Justin Rea, 18, from Warren, Mich. \u201cBeing gay means you are kind of girly. The Marines are, you know, macho.\u201d<\/p>\n Several combat commanders, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because they had not been authorized to speak publicly on the issue, expressed concerns.<\/strong> An Army platoon sergeant who recently led front-line soldiers in Afghanistan, and who supported the ban\u2019s repeal, said he envisioned a difficult transition period during which harassment of openly gay troops would be common.<\/p>\n \u201cThey were kicking people out for being homosexual, and now they will be kicking people out for picking on homosexuals,\u201d <\/strong>the sergeant said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Chaos and confusion unnecessarily injected into the military during wartime all because of a liberal addiction to half-witted, politically correct tomfoolery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Speaking of openly serving homosexuals, interviewed marines said, \u201cThey won\u2019t hold up well in combat\u201d and \u201cMaybe they should just take the same route they take with females and stick them to noncombat units.\u201d Oh dear, these Marines are clearly … Continue reading