It seemed like the right thing to do for nine years.

The best thing is to just say hello … how are you … thanks … I hope your day goes well.

I’m off this thread.

Gays and Lesbians in the military is non of his damn business. It is a decision to be made by the military. Politicians needs to stay out of it. The Obozo was also wrong to bring it up, just like Clinton was wrong.

When I say that I flew with gays, I should have said I most likely did fly with gays. One can never be sure.

You can’t put 48 people in a squadron dedicated to sacrificing their lives to save a squadron mate and segment them via sex or sexual orientation.

The females in the fighter squadrons go out of their way to be just another fighter pilot, because they recognized the issues upfront – in the early 90′s – being different is a problem.

The shower example is ludicrous. No one takes a shower together in a fighter squadron. You go home and take your own shower.

When you go to the gym and shower in public there are no doubt gays showering alongside you. Without verification you are more comfortable. If they walk in and announce; “hey I’m gay and am gonna take a shower near you” … that makes peoples skin crawl.

Financial Armageddon, brought on by Saxby and his financiers, will bring troops home.

Either that or the USA will have to extract tribute from the occupied lands, as has every previous empire in history.

That isn’t America, you might say.

You would be right.

It is reality and the advice of generals changes it not one whit.

There is a reason we put people in charge. It is called delegation. If the leaders of the military are saying it is time to review/repeal the policy, who is a Senator from Georgia to debate him? It is not like he is the commander in chief?

I am asked often what would I do about Iraq when I get elected. I quickly point out I am not running for Commander in Chief. I certainly have my opinions on the issue, but, in the end, I will follow the advise of the generals and advisers in charge of the operation, so long as the objectives are in line with the Constitution.

I think if the people that are in our military are really that homophobic, perhaps they’re not cut out to really be a soldier. Seriously. If being in the same shower as someone who is allowed to verbally state that they are gay without fear of being discharged is really that much of a stress factor to someone, I seriously can’t imagine they would hold up well at all on the battlefield, in the trenches or any other of a number of tougher situations. Unless showering is a much tougher situation to them, in which case I guess our enemies will probably change their torture techniques from water boarding to gay showers.

While people get their hackles up over some silly social conservative issue, Saxby’s biggest contributor – finance – conducts the biggest theft in world history, stealing from every one of us, threatening all with financial destitution, and ruining futures of your kids, yet this horrendous record is ignored.

Saxby has a near perfect record of violating every tenet of REPUBLICANISM, but the “Republican” Party sucks up to him.

Ignorance is bliss, I guess.

How will y’all ever face your kids and grandkids after supporting this guy?

If you mark them as a gay fighter pilot, the cohesion required to be successful in a fighter squadron would be destroyed. The biggest mistake the military made when introducing female fighter pilots, was just that.

Fighter pilots are fighter pilots. Female or male or gay or transexual fighter pilots are a different story.

In society, for the most part, gays and lesbians are separated into their own communities and associate with their own kind. There is a reason for that. People generally live in communities that possess the same values that they themselves share.

The military is not a place for social experiment. If you mix openly gay and lesbian members there will be a defacto separation of communities.

I’m don’t know whether you have served in the military, but had you been in a fighter squadron as I was, you would know why openly gay men and women are not recommended.