Quote of the Day

“When I joined the military it was illegal to be homosexual,

then it became optional,

and now it’s legal.

I’m getting out before Obama makes it mandatory.”

GySgt Harry Berres, USMC

I believe Harry has summed up what a lot of us feel. I had the pleasure this week of meeting one of our members who flew in from Dayton. Broncovet was here to travel back to Ohio with his son who was separating from the Army on Thursday at Joint Base Lewis McChord. Fortunately, his son survived and is now a civilian and no worse for the wear. We had a nice dinner here at Chez Nod and one of the subjects was DADT and its latest iteration.

It is our confirmed belief that this bodes ill for the professional military. We suspect there will be no dearth of REMFs in the future, but a decided absence of combat personnel or those aspiring to same. We also expect to see the draft instituted again at some time in the near future when our military becomes depleted due to a desire by many not to socialize with others not of the heterosexual persuasion. I would point to the comedy skits of Monty Python from the eighties to illustrate this coming crisis.

While we hold no animus towards those who are gender challenged, we feel the new paradigm will eventually alienate others who may hold old fashioned ideas on this touchy subject. It would appear that the words of Leonard Nimoy as Spock in Star Trek have been co-opted to read “The needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many.” So, special barracks and three bathrooms in the future? Sex change operations on demand? Salutes with a wink? We can’t wait.