I’m looking for the actual wording of the question posed to military personnel w/regard to serving with gays. Further, to whom was it asked? Jr. enlisted? Sr. enlisted? Officers? Families/dependents of active duty?
I think this is it: 2010 DoD Comprehensive Review Survey of Uniformed Active Duty and Reserve Service Members (PDF)
(questions re sexual orientation issues start on p. 10)
I do know that many did not take it because it was supposedly anonymous but you could only take it while signed in through the official Army website.
Why? Were they afraid that stars and stripes would publish a Fag-Haters issue?
(I’m going on the assumption that if you don’t want to take the survey it’s because you’re a bigot)
I know many who took the survery (I did). And I don’t know anyone who said they wouldn’t.
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(I’m going on the assumption that if you don’t want to take the survey it’s because you’re a bigot)
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Not necessarily.
The survey asks questions about the military readiness of the individual, the individual’s unit, and about the individual’s immediate leader. I can see someone unwilling to answer those types of questions unless guaranteed anonymity.
It also asks if the individual is in a committed relationship. Since there was no guarantee at the time of the survey that DADT would be repealed, I could see why a gay or lesbian person might be reluctant to answer the survey unless guaranteed anonymity.
They were guaranteed anonymity.
Dio you were in the military. You question that some in the miltary might not completely trust those in the Pentagon?
I actually don’t remember that kind of paranoid distrust. Bitching about the brass, sure, but not conspiracy theory stuff. Reagan was President when I was in, so the military culture was pretty trustful then.
Whoa! You mean this was an on-line survey open to anyone in the service who wanted to participate? Those kind of surveys are notoriously inaccurate.
No. It was sent to a randomized sample of 400,000 active duty and activated reserve component service members and designed and administered by the research firm Westat, in conjunction with the Pentagon’s Comprehensive Review Working Group.
I’m in the military now. No one at our command of over 100 has ever mentioned any concern that leadership would try and “track them down” if the completed the survey “wrong.” At least in the navy, it’s not that big a deal either way.
So was Pete Townshend.