And your solution to both is what?
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Now you are sounding like a pol.
I didn’t create the problem, I was against this foolishness and now I am supposed to have the solution.
It should never have started.
I am not just against women in combat, or gays in combat, I just am not a fan of combat.
Yes, ‘war is hell’ and there is absolutely no need to make it ‘harder’ for the combatant by filling his day to day life with obstacles and distractions.
Mine wasn’t a perfect Navy but women weren’t expected to live and work alongside ‘horny’ young men 24/7, yes gays (not my choice of words) were there but for the most part stuck to themselves -
When I went in if 2 hes were caught in a compromising situation you can figure they BOTH went to the brig, which, at the time, were manned by Marines.
The fact that one would be getting brig time still didn’t stop ‘them’ from approaching ‘new meat’. Sometimes they got lucky, sometimes they got their arse whipped - many a groper has fallen UP ladders while on the way to being put on report.
I don’t know your (DR) military background - it really doesn’t matter - but when the Navy got away from ‘Rocks & Shoals’ and moved into the UCMJ, there were a passel full of items that could and would call for punishment for ‘breaking’ the rules.
They even had one #134 that stated if none of the other articles are covered, this is a catchall.
In short, the Navy/Military isn’t run as a democracy, you don’t have certain ‘rights’ and for the most part you are considered guilty to proven otherwise - once charged- and justice is swift - unless you happen to be a Muslim Major in Texas that shot up a building full of people.
Well said. I have nothing to add.