That methodology alone -- completion of the survey by those who feel like it --tells me that this was not a controlled study, and that is not scientific, and that it is not worth the paper it is printed on.
No knock on any in the armed forces who are in support roles. I had such a job in a previous life.
But I did get enough of a taste to know that the world of front-line troops and rear echelon support is as different as night and day.
Working with homsexuals in what is essentially and office environment is an entirely different ballgame than working with them on a front-line high stress situation.
I'm not sure what the ratio is now, but even during World War II, there were three military people in support roles for every one on the front lines. I suspect the ratio is much more skewed in favor of support troops now.
Still, even if we accept this survey at face value, the obvious question the pro-homo crowd should be asking is this:
Where are you going to find enough homos to replace the roughly one in four military people who have a very negative view and will likely leave the armed services at the earliest available opportunity if this nonsense is made law?
Absolutely right...To have a survey on an issue of this importance with less than a third of them filled out tells me that many knew their supposedly anonymous replies could be traced back to the individual filling it out.
Then there were probably many who read the questions and knew that it was skewed to get the result that Obama, Gates and Mullen were looking for. Those people promptly threw it in the trash because they couldn’t express their true views anyway.
For Mullen to sit there and say that anyone in the military that doesn’t like the repeal of DADT can go find another job is not only disgraceful but shows he has no business being in the top military slot in the country.