Marines Hit the Ground Running in Seeking Recruits at Gay Center

[ClarkUSA]

The Marines were the service most opposed to ending the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, but they were the only one of five invited branches of the military to turn up with their recruiting table and chin-up bar at the center Tuesday morning. Although Marines pride themselves on being the most testosterone-fueled of the services, they also ferociously promote their view of themselves as the best. With the law now changed, the Marines appear determined to prove that they will be better than the Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard in recruiting gay, lesbian and bisexual service members.

Still, judging by the traffic at the gay rights center on Tuesday, there will not be an immediate flood of gay and lesbian Marine applicants. By 3 p.m., more than four hours after the Marines had set up their booth opposite the center’s AIDS quilt, only three women had wandered in, none ideal recruits. The local television crews who had come to watch the action — or inaction, as it turned out — easily outnumbered them.

The first potential recruit, First Lt. Misty McConahy of the Oklahoma National Guard, asked if the Marines had openings for any behavioral health officers, her specialty in the guard. She was told no, the Marines use the Navy for medical care. (Later, Sergeant Henry said that he should have sent her to a recruiter for Marine Corps officers, given her rank.)

“It’s a lot of courage for her to come out like that,” Sergeant Henry said, after watching Lieutenant McConahy surrounded by reporters. “Her commander is probably going to see that on TV tonight.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/us/marine-recruiters-visit-gay-center-in-oklahoma.html?src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB

Thank you, President Obama, for keeping your campaign promise. Semper fidelis. :patriot:

[msongs]

1. bet the marines have a higher than average load of closet case gay men already...

thinking that if they join the marines it will make them into real men. that's how it was back in the old days. at least now that can change

[ClarkUSA]

3. I don't know what the stats are. It'd be interesting if the DoD ran a study at some point.

This is Change We All Can Believe In. ;)

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[ClarkUSA]

4. heh

;)

[izquierdista]

5. They have some catching up to do