About the end of the military ban on homosexuals serving...

[gridlore]

I am the Infantry.
I am my country's strength in war, her deterent in peace.
I am the heart of the fight, wherever, whenever.
I carry America's faith and honor against her enemies.
I am the Queen of Battle.

I am what my country expects me to be
the best trained soldier in the world.
In the race for victory,
I am swift,
determined,
and courageous,
armed with a fierce will to win.

Never will I fail my country's trust.
Always I fight on,
through the foe,
to the objective,
to triumph over all.
If necessary,
I fight to my death.

By my steadfast courage, I have won 200 years of freedom.

I yield not-
to weakness,
to hunger,
to cowardice,
to fatigue,
to superior odds,
for I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight.

I forsake not-
my country,
my mission,
my comrades,
my sacred duty.

I am relentless.
I am always there, now and forever.

I AM THE INFANTRY!
FOLLOW ME!

Don't see anything there about who I sleep with on the weekends. But hey, did anyone tell John McCain that we're the Queen of Battle?

About damn time, and now the wingnuts are going to explode. I shall sit back and enjoy the show.

Comments

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

I thought the Queen of Battle was Artillery.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

They're the King of Battle.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

The Queen tells the King where to put the balls.

[chaotic-nipple.livejournal.com]

And you know what the King does to the Queen.

[nojay.livejournal.com]

The Royal Artillery's motto is "Ubique" which means "everywhere". There'a Kipling poem by that name which sums up the business of delivering hurt at range, time on target and it's true today as it was a hundred years ago.

[kengr]

What with them *still* saying "Now is not the time" I'm just going to borrow from my Jewish friends:

"If not now, when?"

The (only* group that the survey showed to be mostly against where the folks *in combat*.

As I understand it, they won't have to deal with any of the changes until they get rotated *out* of combat. And the folks getting rotated in will be ones that've had time to adjust (or if there isn't that much time until they get rotated in, they'll not be scheduled for the training and stuff until *they* are rotated out.

The Special Forces types gave a rather more likely answer. "Yeah, there's a gay guy in our unit. He's huge and he's death on two feet. So what if he's gay. We want to keep him."

[chaotic-nipple.livejournal.com]

did anyone tell John McCain that we're the Queen of Battle?

... D'oh! Took me a second to get that one.

[caraig.livejournal.com]

Very well said.

Having myself served, I agree that it ultimately means nothing for the mission of the US Armed Forces. They whom will serve, shall serve, regardless of who serves with them.

I do admit, though, that I am stifling my curiosity to go over to military.com's forums and see what peoples' comments are there. Some of the incendiary comments there make the average internet troll look like a sleepy kitten; I can only imagine that the wannabes and others of their ilk are hopping mad.

[drewkitty.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aotlEpmAFVQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

The last remaining argument against gays in the military.

[claidheamhmor]

About time.