Army Recruitment Bottoms Out But No Plans To End Military's Gay Ban

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/03/032405army.htm

The US military is suffering a severe troop shortage and the Army announced this week that it will miss its recruitment goals for the next two months.

The military is strained by the simultaneous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But, despite the drain on troops and failure of the Pentagon to attract enlistees, Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey says there are no plans to either reinstate the draft or end "don't ask, don't tell".

As of Feb. 28, the regular Army was 6 percent below the number of recruits it had expected to sign up at that point in the recruiting year, the Army Reserve was 10 percent off and the Army National Guard was 25 percent off.

[ThoughtCriminal]

1. If the draft comes back

We'll discover an amazing number of young republicans are gay.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. and have boils onn their buts

which by the way is common....


No I should not have gone there, but.... the ones who hate the most history has proven ARE closet gays

[davidinalameda]

4. so when is Fred Phelps going to be popping out of the closet?

[katsy]

3. Good.

I know there's some constitutional thing that doesn't prevent gays from serving in the military.

But my sense of fairness says they should not serve until they have the constitutional guarantees afforded to all Americans.

I don't even think they should pay anything but sales tax unless they have equal rights.

[zbdent]

5. Damn, with that header, you got my

Guckie up . . .