Posted on 12/02/2010 6:33:23 PM PST by jazusamo
Repealing DODT would open up a whole new level of opportunity for sexual harassment. Not that it’s not happening now to a degree, but to condone the behavior via legislation will open a hornet’s nest.
Exactly. Moreover it appears that those who responded got to self-select. Therefore, those who responded were (1) interested enough to reply, (2) unconcerned with anonymity, (3) unconcerned with the "feelings" based questions.
All of the above means they got a skewed kind of respondant, and that a huge group of "kinds" of people were left out.
It's simply not a representative survey.
Pollaganda.
Have either man actually served with low-level combat troops (or even non-combat troops) or did they, as I imagine, serve in an officer corps, nor sleeping, showering and eating alongside dozens of troops in the field?
Great word!
Gates didn’t serve in the military and Mullen has no combat ribbon. I would imagine it’s been many years since Mullen served along side Navy personnel that do the fighting.
After my post, I googled Gates and a site stated that he got an Air Force commission. Nothing about him serving anywhere but merely having been commissioned.
“And many more good people won’t enlist at all.”
I think so, too.
I stand corrected, he was commissioned in the AF. I believe little has been said about it.
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/thepresidentandcabinet/a/robert_gates.htm
excerpt:
“Shortly after joining the CIA in 1966, gates was commissioned into the Air Force as a second lieutenant, serving in the Strategic Air Command from 1967 to 1969.”
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