Hmmmm. Two comments:
1. For 7 1/2 years the Obama policy was identical to Trump's current policy. Where was the outrage then?
2. Trump said he'd let his military leaders decide and gave the job to Mattis to find out what his military leaders recommended. They made the decision. He has their back and Trump is making their decision law.
Get over it.
If Eisenhower had reversed Truman's 1948 order to allow the integration of the US armed forces, would you have said: "For 3 years Truman's policy on blacks and whites in the armed forces was identical to Eisenhower's. Where was the outrage then?" That just makes no sense.
Did they make the decision? By all accounts, no one in the DoD had a clue that this was coming, and Mattis himself was on holiday.
I accept them in the military, I don't accept that the taxpayers should be on the hook for their surgery.
I'd concur with that, West Coast.