Originally Posted By Mark
        I disagree.         But anyway...         I understand they'll be remaking the movie the 300, this time to star Richard Simmons.         "This is Sparta, silly! And you're dressed as a Spring, and after Labor Day! Oh, and those nails..."    

Originally Posted By Mark
I understand they'll be remaking the movie the 300, this time to star Richard Simmons. "This is Sparta, silly! And you're dressed as a Spring, and after Labor Day! Oh, and those nails..."

Homosexuality played a big part in Sparta. I strongly recommend you read some material on Sparta as it relates to this subject before you fly off the cuff.

Originally Posted By Jarhead0331
All this means is that fewer homosexuals will actually join the military because its no longer illegal and it will no longer piss off conservatives.

Originally Posted By admtahoe
        Being prior military the last thing I would want is having some guy in the shower checking me out.    

Originally Posted By Sigma One
        A soldier, no matter their race, sex, sexual preference or religion, as long as they do their duty in the line of fire then I have no problem with them. I'm glad they did away with it, we're not living in the past anymore.     

Originally Posted By Greybriar
       

Originally Posted By Jarhead0331
        All this means is that fewer homosexuals will actually join the military because its no longer illegal and it will no longer piss off conservatives.    

        +1    

Originally Posted By Bloodypage

Originally Posted By Greybriar

Originally Posted By Jarhead0331
All this means is that fewer homosexuals will actually join the military because its no longer illegal and it will no longer piss off conservatives.

+1

+1 (If that were the case fewer gays will be joining the military)    But honestly I think this whole thing has made the US military in the biggest laughing stock in the world. Now the nomenclature will be fighting against the "gayest military in the world".

Originally Posted By bboyer66
         Anyone who is a citizen of the US and wants to fight,and can pass the standard male physical fitness standard, should be able to fight. Plain and simple.    

Originally Posted By Sigma One
        Homosexuals should be treated as soldiers in that if they're male, they are billeted as a male soldier and female soldier accordingly.     

Anyone who is a citizen of the US and wants to fight,and can pass the standard male physical fitness standard, should be able to fight. Plain and simple.

Originally Posted By bboyer66
 Anyone who is a citizen of the US and wants to fight,and can pass the standard male physical fitness standard, should be able to fight. Plain and simple.

Originally Posted By Smuckatelli

Originally Posted By bboyer66
 Anyone who is a citizen of the US and wants to fight,and can pass the standard male physical fitness standard, should be able to fight. Plain and simple.

I'm not looking at it from that perspective, only from the fiscal perspective.   If every servicemember gets his or her own private room, there is no problem. Can we afford this? Instead of having 40-50 recruits in a squadbay with one bathroom you would need 40-50 private rooms/bathrooms.   As you are fully aware of, getting the servicemember to the fight is the hardest aspect of a standing Army.   When you were a PFC, in garrison, how would you have felt living with 3 to 4 other men while another PFC had his own room/bathroom? Do you think cohesion would have been possible?

If every servicemember gets his or her own private room, there is no problem. Can we afford this? Instead of having 40-50 recruits in a squadbay with one bathroom you would need 40-50 private rooms/bathrooms.

Well put.

Originally Posted By ActionJack

Anyone who is a citizen of the US and wants to fight,and can pass the standard male physical fitness standard, should be able to fight. Plain and simple.

Wrong answer!  The military chooses who wears the uniform and not the other way around.  Period!  There are requirements and there are standards; you either meet them or you don't.  'Want' got nothing to do with it.

Originally Posted By ActionJack

Well put.

Poorly put and beyond reality.  All vets should understand that much.  The military is not just a place for employment and not everybody is either eligible, wanted or needed.  In WWII we had a need so great that standards were diminished, a voluteer military does not do away with standards of eligibility or conduct.  Regardless of sexual orientation, not everybody can serve.

Originally Posted By Smuckatelli

Originally Posted By Sigma One
Homosexuals should be treated as soldiers in that if they're male, they are billeted as a male soldier and female soldier accordingly. 

Very easy to say but difficult to carry out. By billeting homosexuals with thier sexual preferences you are showing favoritism.......you are effectively distroying unit cohesion when someone in the unit gets preferential treatment.   Like I said earlier....if every servicemember gets his own private room/bathroom....no problem.   BTW, what is 'Editor in Chief'?