Yes they should!!

Why shouldn’t someone who is perfectly healthy and who wants to serve there country get the right to enlisted in the United States Military? As of right now they can do this but there is a “don’t ask don’t tell” policy which I believe is total junk! The United States are in trouble right now with a recruiting shortages that is affecting every brunch of service, if they remove the ban then more young adults will get the change to enlist. Because of the ban the United States has had to let go of some 13,000 troops, this is just a small problem for the United States, it’s a huge problem. In a public opinion poll that was done in the past year shows that sixty-nine percent of adults are in favor of allowing open homosexuals to enlisted in the military, these numbers are up from forty-three percent in 1993. Even people who say that they are conservatives are supporting gays serving in the military. Even top military officer are in favor of letting openly homosexual to service in the military. Adm. Mike Mullen’s made the strongest statement by any member of the military when he said that yes they should be allow to service in the military. During his meeting with the Senate Armed Service Committee that he is deeply trouble by a policy that force people to” lie about who they are in order to defend their citizens.” He also that he believes that changing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy is going to be rough but that he believes that the military can handle it. Maybe the true problem with in the military isn’t letting homosexual personal service in the military but it’s the heterosexual service members and military leadership not adapting to the new way of the world. There have been many research and policy studies that state that the Pentagon is wrong. Even the first Iraq war veteran ever elected to Congress, is launching a campaign to get Don’t ask don’t tell removed from the military. This is just another explain of how the military is changing and how after just a few months no one would even care if there was openly homosexual in the military, that is why I feel that it is time to make the change.
Work Cited
Zoroya, Gregg. “Mullen says repealing gay military ban is ‘right thing to do’” USA today.. 2010, 02 February
Burrelli, David. “ 96029: Homosexuals and U.S.Military Policy: Current Issues” CRS Issue Brief.. 1996, 12 December