[Churchjack]

The love that dare not speak it's name...in three languages!

How do you say operational compromise in Arabic? We ain't gonna miss'em. Security before correctness. I prefer my country be defended by the mentally healthy and morally upright--they tend to be more dependable. Next!

[Maelstrom]

The part that was left out was that these people would have been kicked out for what they did even if they had been heterosexual.

[Deep_6]

re:
"..We ain't gonna miss'em. Security before correctness. I prefer my country
be defended by the mentally healthy and morally upright--they tend to be
more dependable. Next!..."

Now, that's funny.

 

[tdadams]

This is stupid. The two that were caught in flagrante delicto should be dismissed, but the others should just be told to shut up and get back to work.

We should be protecting America from terrorists who want to kill us, not gays who want to decorate the barracks. When Muslim terrorists bring down the Sears Tower because we didn't have enough linguists to read intelligence transcripts sitting right in front of us, maybe someone will rethink this.

[jimtorr]

Maelstrom is correct. Anyone caught fornicating at DLI is gone immeadietly. I'd say that the seven who confessed just wanted to get out of that pressure-cooker of a school.

I spent a year there myself, studying Chinese-Mandarin. It is truly a brutal school, no matter what the language. The military pushes the people very hard. Six hours in class every day, followed by four hours of study, for most people.

Stanford University said that they would give me credit for the language and culture portion of a four-year Chinese Studies degree, for just one year of work at the DLI.

In my year in Monterey I saw a number of people flip-out from the pressure, and probably half of the people who failed asked to be let go. I'm surprised that the article mentioned such a small failure rate. In my time in the school there was about a 50% failure rate. Either a better class of people are going through the school, or standards have been lowered.

[GeekDejure]

Yup . . . now we got nine more Muzzle-em converts !!!

They want the 24 beautiful young boys that Islamic Pair-of-dice promises !!!

[galt-jw]

if they were female, they may have been cunning linguists.

Thankyouverymuch.

[maximus@Nashville]

OK, so we have some guys in the military getting paid the military wage. The CIA and other intellegence agencies are offering large salaries to Arabic linguists. Now how can you get out of this pesky term of enlistment in order to take the high paying job, without sacrificing your security clearance?

I think this is a much more likely senario as to why we have several making the claim of being Gay at the same time, rather than a sudden change of conscience.

Does anyone recall at the start of the Gulf War a female physician who had let the US Army pay for her education, but when her reserve unit was called to duty, she developed "serious contientious objections to military service" despite the fact that as a Doctor, she would be a non-combatant.

[Cacique]

fagotry on the rampage bump.

[Dimensio]

Security before correctness.

Yep. Better that thousands die in a terrorist attack than one homosexual have a part in preventing the attack.