How Will Allowing Gays to Openly Serve Effect Combat Readiness?

[HoreTore]

The main issue with female troops isn't their own ability to serve, it's just that when they are placed with the guys then trouble ensues. Below are a couple of BBC links:

Women at war face sexual violence

"According to several studies of the US military funded by the Department of Veteran Affairs, 30% of military women are raped while serving, 71% are sexually assaulted, and 90% are sexually harassed.

The Department of Defense acknowledges the problem, estimating in its 2009 annual report on sexual assault (issued last month) that some 90% of military sexual assaults are never reported."

Women at war: sexual violence in the US military

That has got to be devastating to the ability of these troops to fight together.

So? Are you saying that there's no soldier on soldier violence among the males?

Soldier on soldier rape is far more common than you'd think, and that's among male heterosexual soldiers...

This is nothing. As HoreTore implied: 99% of males are sexually assaulted. The difference is that most of us them like it.

No, my point was that we disguise our need for comfort and closeness as aggressive sexuality.