Posted on 07/16/2015 1:58:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
With an estimated 15,000 transgender soldiers now serving throughout the US military, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter on Monday called the military's ban 'outdated' and 'confusing.'
When Kristin Beck was a Navy SEAL for 20 years, and known as a fighter named Christopher, her transgender identity was “maybe third or fourth or fifth down the list of things that were concerning me.”
A decorated veteran of seven combat missions and a member of the famed special counterterrorism unit SEAL Team Six, Ms. Beck was part of the one of the most elite fighting forces in the world, the “toughest of the tough,” the former senior chief says, before leaving the Navy in 2011.
“My primary concern was service to my country, to defend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, to defend my nation,” says Beck. “At the time, the more important objective was service to the country, and so I was able to put aside my own personal gender struggle.”(continued)
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I have a Benny Hill Comedy skit running through my mind right now.
Because there’s nothing the military needs more than mentally ill people in need of lifelong medical care.
I wonder where the “estimated 15,000...now serving” came from?
I can’t wait till the pervert crowd catches on to the fact that they can loiter in women’s restrooms without fear of recrimination.
So much for that Section 8 now.
Freak Brigades.
dear betsey we dont care much about your personal struggle quite frankly
acting it out to the detriment of the nation is INAPPROPRIATE....self absorbed...and just plain STUPID!
grow a pair and shut up!
You would think the docs doing the physicals upon enlistment would spot the after market parts.
I can see the incentive program now. Re-enlist for 4 more years and get ANOTHER sex-change operation...and a new set of uniforms to fit...uh...what??
Question is: Are they trans-patriot.. or democrats..
Just being a democrat demands you to be a traitor..
More sick , twisted people for the divider in chief to get in the military.
They want to service troops in the foxholes.
Re-enlist and we’ll change you back after your suicide attempts.
If you want to end a ban, how about this - end the ban on our troopers at home carrying sidearms!!!!!
Lying about that 15,000 number. Nothing but lies.
“As Pentagon mulls...”
The Pentagon isnt mulling anything. This comes from the top. From the White House. And the ban will be dropped because thats the way Obama wants it. Hes just getting the Pentagon to provide him with cover as the pentagon pretends this is coming from them only.
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