Department of Defence DADT Survey

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

so, looks like few members of congress cared to take the advice of our combat troops and went ahead and passed the repeal of DADT anyway:


while 70 percent of service members (regardless if they work a desk job) surveyed said repealing the policy would have a positive, mixed or no effect, nearly 50 percent and 60 percent of Army and Marine combat troops, respectively, think serving with an openly gay or lesbian service member will have a negative or very negative effect on their unit's war-fighting capability.

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

What's with the gay Brit spelling of the word "defense"?  You aren't going queer on us, are you jmf****t?

no, either it's MS Word spell checker (it's set on Brit spellings since i work for a European company), or it's a typo