However, a working knowledge of the system allows military veterans to look at this situation from a more informed point of view. The military is a system and it works a certain way. While it's not perfect, it works as it does for a reason. Me and other folks with my experience understand why the military system is what it is. This situation if waaaaay more complex than, "gays can now serve openly in the service".
I'll use Kal'stang's post as an example,
It's not ass simple as issueing an order and that's that. That order has to a lawful order.
It's going to take years to iron all this out and in the future, I would expect local orders that, in effect, create an unofficial version of DADT that applies to everyone. There will be seperate billetting. The military isn't going to be able to force gay and straight soldiers to live together. Ask anyone that's ever been in the Army, or the Marine Corps and they'll tell you the same thing. When ground units, especially combat arms units start living seperately, unit cohesion will suffer. That's part of the reason that un-married soldiers aren't allowed to live outside of the unit billets, until they reach a certain amount of time in service. Then, there's personel accountability. It's gonna be a gaint pain in the ass for a platoon seargent, or a 1st seargent, when their soldiers are living here, there, yonder and all over the place.