'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repealed

[miotas]

Study of the effects of allowing openly gay people to serve in Australia in 1992 http://www.palmcenter.org/publicatio...g_the_evidence

this study finds that the full lifting of the ban on gay service has not led to any identifiable negative effects on troop morale, combat effectiveness, recruitment and retention, or other measures of military performance. Furthermore, available evidence suggests that policy changes associated with the lifting of the ban may have contributed to improvements in productivity and working environments for service members

Yes I know it says may, but still...

Prior to the lifting of the ban, ADF service chief argued that allowing homosexuals to serve openly would jeopardize recruitment, troop cohesion, and combat effectiveness while also spreading AIDS and encouraging predatory behavior

Excluding the AIDs bit that basically sums up the arguments against it in this thread so far.

Recruitment and retention rates have not suffered as a result of the policy change. As Commodore R. W. Gates of the Royal Australian Navy states in the report, “There was no great peak...where people walked out, and there was no great dip in recruiting. It really was a non-event.”

In a few months or years no one will even care.