Posted on 05/27/2012 5:39:34 PM PDT by kevcol
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Gay students at America's military service academies are wrapping up the first year when they no longer had to hide their sexual orientation, benefiting from the end of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that used to bar them from seemingly ordinary activities like taking their partners openly to graduation events.
For the first time, gay students at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis were able to take a same-sex date to the academy's Ring Dance for third-year midshipmen. The U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., officially recognized a club for gay students this month. And gay cadets at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., are relieved they no longer have to worry about revealing their sexuality.
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Official recognition by the Air Force school in May of the social club Spectrum means gay students there won't have to meet underground anymore.
Students and gay alumni also say the repeal is creating professional benefits by opening doors to mentorship possibilities. Being open about their orientation gives students and experienced military personal one more common experience that can foster a mentoring relationship, they said.
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At West Point, the alumni gay advocacy group Knights Out was able to hold the first installment in March of what is intended to be an annual dinner in recognition of gay and lesbian graduates and cadets. Cadet Kaitlyn Kelly was among the dozens of cadets who attended the privately sponsored dinner. The 22-year-old Chicago resident was finally able to openly introduce her civilian girlfriend at an event marking 100 days before graduation.
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The military was one sector that remained (relatively) unscathed as the “left made their long march though our institutions”. (Pat Buchanan quotation) Now the jug eared communist is working on destroying our defense forces and what better way than making gay 100% OK. Not to mention the Dems putting women on submarines and ships. The pregnancy rate on some aircraft carriers is 30%
Now that’s funny. Obama’s got that special look in his eye!
I haven’t seen any fallout yet. Maybe in five more years or so. Hopefully the deviant officers will wash out on active duty.
I don’t see how someone can follow a man that takes it up the wazoo. Their thought processes gotta be totally out of whack.
The rectum has an abundance of nerve endings (wikipedia) that connect to the brain. So my theory is you mess up your brain and nervous system from taking it up the wazoo. This would apply to men and women but men more so and more damaging
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