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It will mean even more cases of sexual harassment and discrimination for unit commanders to deal with, taking time away from training and threatening unit cohesion.
Maybe, but not likely to be a huge amount more and it could be balanced out from not having to deal with as many cases of investigating claims of homosexuality and/or taking the time to actually put someone out for admitting homosexuality.
The 2 guys I know who were involuntarily DADT discharged fought hard and were fought hard for by our chain of command to keep them in. It took several boards for the Navy to finally make the decision that their sexuality mattered more than the fact that nukes are severely undermanned and needed every qualified person we could get to stand watch. Everyone knew they were homosexual, no one in our department cared one bit. And we had lots of guys and girls who were openly homosexual. We had zero cases of sexual harassment from homosexuals in the 4 1/2 years I was aboard ship.
I have lived with openly homosexual people in a military environment. They are no more likely to sexually harass someone than a heterosexual is, and in some cases, even less so, just due to the stigma that would come from a guy hitting on another guy who wasn't gay. And their small numbers would mean that any increase in sexual harassment cases should be insignificant, unless you want to provide some hard data to support your claim that "sexual harassment cases will increase".