Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., pointed out during the first day of the Senate Armed Services Committee hearings on Thursday that according to a survey conducted for the Pentagon, repealing DADT could create an "alarming" troop retention problem at a time when the military is already shorthanded.
'Troop retention' is the big-money word that politicians use to say 'lots of folks will quit the military.'
As I was cruising the blogosphere, I was asking myself if Sec Gates was confident enough about openly gay members in the service to let currently serving members out of their contracts?
Yeah, I thought not.
And a bit of inside baseball, the only chief of a branch of military who is actually for having openly gay members is the Sec of the ... wait for it ... Navy. Go figure.
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