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"Allowing openly gay service members will not hurt unit cohesion or competence. Our closest allies allow openly gay service members, including every member of NATO except Turkey.



None of the European NATO countries have engaged in anything recognizable as "combat" since WW2 - and some well before that - except Britain. They're useless as a measure of what works or doesn't when things get rough.

The Soviets used women in combat in WW2, but little is know about how or what, if any, problems were seen, much less if that experience even translates into a Western-style military without the NKVD machine-gun squads to enforce discipline.

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Israel are just some of the 24 nations that allow openly gay members in the military.



How many of those openly gay soldiers are in combat units?

The guys manning the Paperwork & BS department aren't the problem - they might as well be gay for all anyone cares - but the pointy end of the stick is (maybe) another matter.
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