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To: bentway who wrote (229230)	8/13/2013 8:12:37 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542525

I wasn't a Navy man--Army. I'm sure, since it is estimated that approximately 10% of the population is gay and it was the draft era Army, that there were gays in the ranks. In fact, back in the days, one of the many different hats I wore in the service was working in the Ft. Dix Stockade Sociology Office as a clerk typist. In that capacity many a paperwork crossed my desk concerning soldiers confined who were awaiting service discharge for committing homosexual acts. My only concern here is whether in today's military is whether unit effectiveness will be impacted by any overt gay behavior if and when it occurs. That answer, I think is unknowable right now. A lot of jobs in the Army are 9-5 if one is not in a combat unit and we are not at war. A lot of soldiers go home at the end of the day to off post housing and pick up their private lives. No problemo. However, in combat units during war living quarters are often tight or in the field. What, if any, will be the effect at that time of any overt gay behavior, if it occurs, remains to be seen. I am not saying it will be a problem although it goes with out saying there will probably be an incident or too--just ike there were between heterosexual soldiers in Iraq. The question for me is whether the behavior, if and when it occurs, will rise to a level that effects a unit's performance.