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Yes, I'm sure everyone is in mortal peril the whole time and any unit cohesion will be destroyed by homosexual officers living together on military bases. This isn't about foxhole confessions of homosexuality... this is about equal rights. Essentially your saying they must all obey DADT because of homophobes like you who are so disgusted they wouldn't be able to work with them. Thats all you really seem to be implying here. I'm sure all the other soldiers think just like you and would just 'fall apart' if they knew there was a homo in their midst. Except I met a flamer who acclimated just fine and only encountered 1 or 2 homophobes out of 40 men in the platoon while being out processed. They were a problem, because I knew of 2 other homosexuals in the platoon that were not out. Average would probably be 4.
I served with a gay man I would trust with my life. The point is he never talked about being gay and worked hard to do his job to the best of his ability. This was in the 70's before DADT.