Air Force website: Airmen, let us know how DADT will impact recruitment, cohesion, readiness!

[Bluebear]

And not only the airmen via this $4.5 million survey, but their FAMILIES can guide this process ANONYMOUSLY by submitting their thoughts. Woo hoo! There's some fierce advocatin'!

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7/26/2010 - WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- "Your opinion matters" is the view of Air Force officials on the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" survey released July 7 to more than 98,000 randomly selected active-duty Air Force, Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve members.

Selected Airmen have received an e-mail with the survey from Westat, a third-party contractor, on behalf of the Department of Defense. Westat is a professional, independent pollster collecting and analyzing the data.

The confidential survey is not a referendum on whether or not to repeal the law, said Lt. Gen. Richard Y. Newton III, the deputy chief of staff for manpower and personnel.

"Rather, it's designed to assist leadership in assessing the impacts, if any, that the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" might have on military readiness, military effectiveness, unit cohesion, and recruiting and retention," he said...

Airmen who do not receive the survey can still share their thoughts concerning potential repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" through the online inbox at www.defense.gov/dadt, an Internet site accessible to common access card holders through www.af.mil or the Air Force Portal.

The online inbox allows servicemembers and their families to submit issues anonymously to the intra-department, inter-service working group, led by Army Gen. Carter F. Ham, the commander of U.S. Army Europe, and Jeh Johnson, the Pentagon's top lawyer.

http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123214931

[Ozymanithrax]

1. I spent 20 years in the military, and never noticed that it was democratic...

Airmen, Seaman, and Privates shut up and did what they were told.

I was told that my wife and children were not issued in my Seabag. They had no input into military decisions.

Congress needs to repeal DADT.

Airmen will deal with it.

[VMI Dem]

2. Who brokered this idiotic fucking survey?

Who the fuck thought this was a good idea?

[Touchdown]

4. The President.

[VMI Dem]

5. The same guy that thinks the states should be deciding peoples civil rights?

What a fucking surprise.

[FreeState]

6. I get the impression that Obama does not see it as a civil rights issue

I dont see any evidence President Obama believes discriminating against gays is unconstitutional, he thinks it needs to end, but I can't find a singe place where he states discrimination against GLBT citizens is unconstitutional based on orientation.

[VMI Dem]

7. Obama is religiously opposed to gay marriage.

Of course he wants to deflect it back to the states.

[FreeState]

9. Yep and I like to say - bigotry based on religion is still bigotry n/t

[Touchdown]

3. I spent 3 years in the Army. It didn't make me straight.

Guess it's still missing a few of it's "manly" parts.

Oh'... to answer Duer's next question Yes I looked in the shower. And they were magnificent!:rofl:

[donco6]

8. So, imagine your local news website's comments on this.

You've all read them before, right? The anonymous racist asshole posters. So imagine what these responses will look like! Can't wait!