End of DADT policy in US military
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For the record and for what it is worth.
I have many Americans working for me and they haven't noticed. They just don't care, which was pretty much the reaction of UK Mil PLC in the 90s when we decriminalised homosexuality for servicemen.
The press and politicians have tried to score points on both sides. But I say again, my lot just do not care. Absolute non-story.
I have many Americans working for me and they haven't noticed. They just don't care, which was pretty much the reaction of UK Mil PLC in the 90s when we decriminalised homosexuality for servicemen.
The press and politicians have tried to score points on both sides. But I say again, my lot just do not care. Absolute non-story.
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Exactly... in the 1980s in the USMC & USN, despite the then-criminality of it all, most of us didn't want to know and didn't report people if we became aware... it just wasn't important.
Whether the persons did ther job well was the main thing.
Whether the persons did ther job well was the main thing.
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I was still serving when it was officially "decriminalised" in the Australian Defence Forces.
According to the vocal warnings from the "old guard" at the time, we were supposed to have been suddenly overrun in the various living quarters by hordes of men in g-strings wearing tiaras and singing loudly along to "Macho Man" by the Village People.
It never happened. The rule change came and went with a bit of a fizzle really, and people just went about their jobs.
Though I do remember having an argument with a particular admin Sergeant once. He said "Are you annoyed because I'm openly gay?". I replied "no, I'm annoyed because you're openly incompetent."
According to the vocal warnings from the "old guard" at the time, we were supposed to have been suddenly overrun in the various living quarters by hordes of men in g-strings wearing tiaras and singing loudly along to "Macho Man" by the Village People.
It never happened. The rule change came and went with a bit of a fizzle really, and people just went about their jobs.
Though I do remember having an argument with a particular admin Sergeant once. He said "Are you annoyed because I'm openly gay?". I replied "no, I'm annoyed because you're openly incompetent."
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
One female officer was accused of bias against another female and the gist of her response was as above.
Mind you the Doc Martin maffia was something else again.
