Toomey is no conservative.
Without an agenda, an honest person can see serious flaws in the methodology and interpretation of the survey conducted by the military of its personnel.
I don’t have time to list all the reasons why open homosexuality is a detriment to combat victory, but Toomey isn’t stupid. He’s just choosing to ignore truth for some personal or political gain.
And just because Mike Mullen & Gates have decided gay is fine in the military, how many generals and secdefs in the past have been found to be incompetent on the battlefield.
The truth is that Adm Mullen has never been fired on in anger that I can tell.
His Vietnam Unit citation award is an “I was there” award:
“The Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation with Palm was issued to every Allied nation which provided military support to Vietnam between 1 March 1961 and the fall of Saigon in April 1975. The unit decoration thus became the most commonly awarded Vietnamese decoration to foreigners, second only to the Vietnam Campaign Medal.”
There is no active combat award for valor in his resume that I can find.
So, how long after first contact before he is replaced? Think: General McClellan.
He does not wear the Combat Action Ribbon. I know. When I met him a couple years ago, I looked for it. It wasn't there.
I am disappointed that no Republican Congressman/Senator asked either Mullen or Gates about the "collateral damages" that will surely come from this decision.
What happens when the ship's captain wants to wear a daring black cocktail dress to mess night, rather than his dress whites?
Since we're letting in homos, how about the so-called transgendered? Can "female" members who are trapped inside the body of a man, then decide to berth and bath with the females?
ALL of this will come up. And, if we have district court judges willing to litigate the first issue, they'll certainly be other issues - like the few I've mentioned - that will be litigated as well. This will be a mess of unimaginable proportions.