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I have to contribute and add that no one I know who's been in the military or just entered it with my graduating class has any kind of training or direction teaching us to sniff out gays.
In fact the current guidance is to stay as far away as possible from the issue and you are actively encouraged to ignore any kind of behavior that could be considered homosexual unless it occurs in training areas, during duty hours, or in shared quarters, such as your barracks.
The reason is because its such a massive pain in the ass to start the process to chapter someone out of the Army for homosexual conduct, and it almost always makes for bad press as well. It also must be done through a court martial and the General Officer level, and those guys always want to focus on more important issues.
In fact, and I know Apdst will go nuts when i say this, people often ignore homosexual conduct when it occurs because of all the hassle enforcing DADT involves. In some situations a punishment would have been issued if it was simply heterosexual sex at an inappropriate time or place, however because its now homosexual conduct and requires a massively larger amount of the Army's time and money it sometimes goes ignored.
Why is it so goddamned hard for people to understand my position on gays serving in the military?
is it because I don't tow the party line? Or is it because my ideas about gays in the military are too ****ing hard for supposedly smarter people to undersand?
OR is it that the DADT abolitionist are so goddamned ignorant of the actual regulations and directives, that they don't even understand what they're opposed to?