Alastor
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The US Military is not a social experiement, its our country's fighting force. Their mission needs to be taken more seriously than some guinea pig social experiment.
Erm... Actually that's not historically accurate.
Racial integration was first achieved in... Wait for it... Wait for it... The military. Religious integration was first achieved in... The military. Sexual integration was first achieved in... The military.
In each of these cases it was done long before it was popular in the mainstream.
Historically, the military is where we start social changes, not the other way around. This is one of the arguments in favor of a compulsary military service.
Our education system (schools) is another place where we've installed social change historically.
Both institutions have a precedent for being a productive place and way to enact social change.