[Vision2020] Air Force Boots Top Aviator

[bear at moscow.com]

Tom,

This makes as much sense as anything else the military has done in the
past few years.
Number one," Don't ask, Don't tell" doesn't work, never has, and DOESN'T
matter!
Number two, there have always been and always will be gay men and women in
the armed forces, so WHO CARES? Do they do their job?  Who (or what)
someone goes to bed with has no bearing on if they are a good pilot, a
good infantryman, etc etc. Lets get the government out of bedrooms once
and for all. ANYONE who has spent more than a few weeks on active duty HAS
worked with gays, so what?

It is amazing how many good people have been tossed in the last few years.
One big problem right now is that we keep tossing out linguists that are
in critical languages such as Arabic, Dhari, Hazari, and Pashtu. So we had
a funny situation where it is morally OK to torture some one till they
talk, but God forbid we should have gay interpreters! Without debating if
the information you torture out of someone is true or not, I can assure
you that no matter how much you torture these folks, they will NOT give
you  the information in english!


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> Courtesy of the Huffington Post at:
> Air Force Boots Their 25 Milion Dollar Aviator
> New President. New Congress. No Change. Here is the latest evidence of
> what our country is losing under the law that prevents gay men and women
> from serving openly in the armed forces of the United States.
> Lieutenant Colonel Victor J. Fehrenbach, a fighter weapons systems
> officer, has been flying the F-15E Strike Eagle since 1998. He has flown
> numerous missions against Taliban and al-Qaida targets, including the
> longest combat mission in his squadron's history. On that infamous
> September 11, 2001, Lt. Col. Fehrenbach was handpicked to fly sorties
> above the nation's capital. Later he flew combat missions in Iraq and
> Afghanistan. He has received at least 30 awards and decorations including
> nine air medals, one of them for heroism, as well as campaign medals for
> Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is now a flight instructor in Idaho,
> where he has passed on his skills to more than 300 future Navy, Marine
> Corps, and Air Force weapons systems officers.
> Since 1987, when Fehrenbach entered Notre Dame on a full Air Force ROTC
> scholarship, the government has invested twenty-five million dollars in
> training and equipping him to serve his country, which he has done with
> what anyone would agree was great distinction. He comes from a military
> family. His father was a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, his mother
> an Air Force nurse and captain. Lt. Col. Fehrenbach has honored that
> tradition.
> And the Air Force is about to discharge this guy, a virtual poster boy for
> Air Force recruiting, because he is gay.
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