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Originally Posted by Steve
I had a guy who worked for me during Desert Storm. We were pretty damn sure the guy was a pillow-biter.
He was also a 4.0 sailor.
His uniform was always immaculate, I never needed to tell him to shave or get a haircut, and I never had to tell him to do something more than once. He was the best Sonar operator I had. He was qualified, as an E-4, as CIC Supervisor. Give him an order, and I knew it would get done, and it would get done, correctly, the first time.
When it came to a firefight, I had no reservations about this guy doing what needed to be done. Not a one.
We didn't ask, and he didn't tell. We were pretty damn sure, though. Even still, I think the lowest mark I ever gave him on an eval was 3.8. Had he been discharged for being gay, it would have been quite a measurable loss to our division and the ship...
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That is excellent. I have also talked about - on here, in the past - the two YN's (or PN's...can't remember) on my ship who everybody was 99% sure were gay. They kept it under wraps, did their jobs, probably got very good EVAL scores, etc... Still didn't stop the jokes when their office door was locked, inexplicably, at strange times.
This really doesn't address the absurdity that I pointed out: From what I can tell every homo that was given the boot was
at least a 4.0 serviceperson...if not on the CMoH shortlist. I mean, seriously, where is that one article talking about a homo getting shown the door that
doesn't make mention of their "superior" performance?
Is that just another homosexual stereotype (read: truism)? They like Judy Garland, have a good sense of fashion, and are outstanding in a military capacity?
If that truly is the case...well then, hell's bells, recruit them based upon that characteristic, I say! But, as is always the case with shit like this, it is nothing but selective representation for the purpose of spreading propaganda.
Maybe the would-be inferior servicepeople who are homos never make it out of bootcamp - being idiotic enough to get pinched early. Kinda like those two nimrods from a neighboring bootcamp company in Great Mistakes that got caught by the night watch pumping each other in the head. Had they somehow survived boot, perhaps they'd have eventually risen to be the first documented cases of homos in the military that sucked at their jobs, among other things.