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RE: UNISEX
In my opinion, coed units don't work, so making them even more coed would be a disaster, and not just at first. I was Field Artillery, which is essentially all male. Every coed unit we worked with always had problems with adultery and fraternization. Those of you who had more experience probably know more than I do about it, but my observation was there was always some kind of sexual thing disturbing unit morale.
Side story: within months of my brigade getting a deployment order, a disproportionate number of the females in the brigade headquarters company got pregnant. One apparently less fertile female received an article 15 for submitting a pregnant friend's urine sample at the health clinic in an attempt to get out of deploying.
The unisex thing wouldn't work, nor would allowing gays to openly serve (y'know, excluding the Navy...)
When you say UNISEX, do you mean women would have the same standards on the APFT?
I think Gen. Pace is going to get run out on a rail, by the way. I like him, I agree with him, but he will be another victim of politics. I hope I am wrong.
RE: UNISEX
Put the gay men with the women and the lesbians with the men. There.
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I know one of the issues regarding soldier morale and homosexual soldiers is the "comfort" factor. The men do not want to be oggled or perceive oggling by their homosexual counterparts in showers or bay barracks, etc.
I wonder what the effect would be if the military simply decreed UNISEX conditions. It would probably go awfully at first until some decorum were established. But would the system breakdown completely [over time] if men and women showered, dressed and slept together? If so - there is the easiest, demonstrable failure of open homosexuality in the ranks.
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