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Combat troops to get gay sensitivity training
Washington Times ^ | Feb. 24, 2011 | Rowan Scarborough

Posted on 02/24/2011 9:39:57 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

American combat troops will get sensitivity training directly on the battlefield about the military’s new policy on gays instead of waiting until they return to home base in the United States, the senior enlisted man in Afghanistan said Thursday.

The Pentagon is launching an extensive force-wide program to ease the process of integrating open homosexuals into the ranks, including into close-knit fighting units.

Army Command Sgt. Maj. Marvin Hill, the top enlisted man in Afghanistan where 100,000 U.S. troops are deployed, said that the sessions on respecting gays’ rights will go right down to the forward operating bases, where troops fight Taliban militants.

“I have heard about the training that will be forthcoming to the battlefield,” Sgt. Hill told Pentagon reporters via a teleconference from Kabul.

“We will take our directions from the Department of Defense, from the secretary of defense, the chairman, as well as the service chiefs of each service. Our plan is to take their direction, and we’re going to execute that training right here on the battlefield.”

No unit is exempted, he said.

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1 posted on 02/24/2011 9:39:58 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Insanity.


2 posted on 02/24/2011 9:44:20 PM PST by Crim (The Obama Doctrine : A doctrine based on complete ignorance,applied with extreme incompetence..)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The troops will be laughing horselaughs to themselves at this.


3 posted on 02/24/2011 9:44:34 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

That should make for some interesting YouTube video...if YouTube permits it of course.


4 posted on 02/24/2011 9:44:43 PM PST by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
My worry is that at some point, many will say, "This country ain't worth fighting for anymore."

With this candy-ass stuff coming from DC, who can blame them?
5 posted on 02/24/2011 9:46:57 PM PST by Antoninus (The slogan for the 2012 election: Better a known enemy than a false friend. Say no to Romney.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The troops should flip the bird to whoever is holding these so-called “sensitivity training” sessions. Then they should walk out.

What’s Gates and Obummer going to do....court-martial the entire Army and Marine Corps?

Enough is enough of this left-wing bullcrap.


6 posted on 02/24/2011 9:48:08 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (A Jimmy Carter got us a Ronald Reagan......A Barack Obama will get us a Sarah Palin)
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To: Antoninus

Christians won’t be signing up or extending. This is a nail in OUR coffin.


7 posted on 02/24/2011 9:48:35 PM PST by Goreknowshowtocheat
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To: Crim

more pc pukeness..


8 posted on 02/24/2011 9:49:23 PM PST by max americana
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To: Free ThinkerNY; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; rabscuttle385; ...
Yep, not surprising.

You don't hear Republicans complaining about Obama’s decision to not defend DOMA, setting us up for paying SS and medicare to same-sex couples. And you will hear crickets on this, I miss 1993.

9 posted on 02/24/2011 9:49:41 PM PST by sickoflibs ("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

At the very least, SNL’s “writers” will have some fodder, upon which they’ll save their arses for the near future.


10 posted on 02/24/2011 9:50:26 PM PST by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The late great American military. RIP


11 posted on 02/24/2011 9:50:26 PM PST by DWar ("The ultimate destination of Political Correctness is totalitarianism.")
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To: Free ThinkerNY
How's that Ubama election working out for you, America?


12 posted on 02/24/2011 9:50:34 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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Coool,,,that’ll help em out a lot as they are fighting their way into Libya,,,


13 posted on 02/24/2011 9:51:05 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Now when we pray to God to be merciful and protect our sons and daughters it isn’t just from a vicious enemy from without. It’s from those who are in control of our armed forces.


14 posted on 02/24/2011 9:51:14 PM PST by EternalVigilance (But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, a universal license to be good. -- Hartley Coleridge)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So unconstitutional from a million standpoints. Forcing respect for such disgusting and demeaning behavior takes away the freedom of conscience and religion. I suppose they have messed with the troops minds with the homosexual Afghanis who molest their boys and parade them around....The military homosexual commander in chief is trying to destroy our military now...

You will not have troops who are honorable and have character, if they practice homosexuality. It is not possible. Forcing respect of that act is a gross violation of conscience and it goes against our Constitution...laws can not go against the nature of man. They are unjust according to the intent of our Founding Fathers. There is nothing natural about homosexuality. It is a perversion and it always includes pederasts. It advocates child abuse.

Listen to the first paragraph of this....it is what homosexuality is all
about....
http://www.worldviewweekend.com/worldview-tube/video.php?videoid=4362


15 posted on 02/24/2011 9:52:50 PM PST by savagesusie
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To: Goreknowshowtocheat
Christians won’t be signing up or extending. This is a nail in OUR coffin.

I know it. I hope they find ways to pass on their training to civilians who might be interested.
16 posted on 02/24/2011 9:53:11 PM PST by Antoninus (The slogan for the 2012 election: Better a known enemy than a false friend. Say no to Romney.)
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To: Antoninus

I talked to my son the other day about this. He’s a middle manager rank in the Army. He’s got three years to do and then he’s retiring. He can’t stand the way things are but he has invested so many years that he can’t just walk away without his full retirement. He says that many, many troops feel this way but with the shaky economy, they’re not sure they can make the kind of money out of the military that they make in, so they stay, but just putting in time.


17 posted on 02/24/2011 9:54:23 PM PST by oneolcop (Lead, Follow or Get the Hell Out of the Way!)
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To: Antoninus

The Warrior ethos is dying. Don’t see how we can survive if things don’t change.


18 posted on 02/24/2011 9:54:32 PM PST by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: Free ThinkerNY
There has to be an upside somewhere...

Better haircuts?

19 posted on 02/24/2011 9:57:48 PM PST by DeFault User
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To: Free ThinkerNY
There was similar lunacy during VN with a requirement for a full week of racial sensitivity training. I don't think ground combat units in the RVN had to go through the program . Everybody else did and it produced some interesting results. In one case a USAF go got called a ‘racist mfer’ while undergoing sensitivity training on Okinawa. These festivals of the mind are right out of the theater of the absurd.
20 posted on 02/24/2011 9:57:57 PM PST by robowombat
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