Marine Chief has head up ass

by YankeeJim | December 14, 2010 at 06:35 pm

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Gays are a distraction? Maybe to you sir. They said the same thing about women. At one time, they said the same thing about African Americans. Get with the program, military service is for all citizens who want to serve their country. Diversity is a part of life and not a “disruption” you knucklehead. Shape up or ship out.

“Marine Corps Chief: 'Distraction' of Gays Serving Openly Could Cost Marines Limbs
By Justin Fishel

Published December 14, 2010

FoxNews.com

WASHINGTON -- Using graphic imagery and his strongest language to date, the new Marine Corps commandant spoke out again Tuesday against a repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, this time suggesting that a change in the law would risk maiming Marines because of the "distraction."

In a background briefing with a handful of Pentagon reporters, Gen. James Amos said a repeal of the law that bans gays from openly serving could prove to be a life-threatening distraction for combat Marines. Fox News was not invited to the briefing, but the military newspaper "Stars and Stripes" provided an audio recording.

"I don't want to lose any Marines to the distraction," Amos said. "I don't want to have any Marines that I'm visiting at Bethesda [National Naval Medical Center, in Maryland] with no legs be the result of any type of distraction."

Amos, it should be noted, is scheduled to visit wounded Marines at the Bethesda Medical Center on Wednesday.

It's not the first time the newly appointed top Marine has voiced his opposition to a repeal. Early this month, all five service chiefs testified on the results of the yearlong Defense Department review of the military's policy on homosexuals. That study determined there would be low risk associated with a repeal. Gen. Amos, along with the chiefs of the Air Force and Army, expressed reservations. Amos was the strongest in his opposition, telling Congress, "assimilating openly homosexual Marines into the tightly woven fabric of our combat units has strong potential for disruption."

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