[Jack Moroney (RIP)]

I want to have all those that support gays in the military to be the first to lie side by side with a gay person while they are performing a cutdown and dumping his/her blood into theirs. There are very practical reason why I do not want to see gays on the battlefield nor anywhere else where the threat of human bodily fluids are flying, exchanged, or are likely to be exposed. I believe that I mentioned this before, but I have served with gay troops and did not know it, but I also felt very uneasy about the situation that I did not know it after they had died of AIDS and I had exposed other troops to that threat during times teams were working on perfecting various medical techniques such as performing IVs on one another. I do not accept don't ask don't tell as an omission of that fact means I cannot trust you to be up front and honest with me on anything else. And while we seem to have a SecDef who thinks we need to forget about the big wars and concentrate on asymetric foes and insurgencies I would like to point out that there is no MOS that is not at risk in the theater of operations. That is as simple as I can make it.