{"id":7291,"date":"2010-09-21T00:25:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T06:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7291"},"modified":"2010-09-19T23:44:10","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T05:44:10","slug":"general-boykin-voices-opposition-to-dadt-repeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/21\/general-boykin-voices-opposition-to-dadt-repeal\/","title":{"rendered":"General Boykin Voices Opposition to DADT Repeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LtGen William Boykin (USA, Ret) has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onenewsnow.com\/Security\/Default.aspx?id=1167026\">reportedly said<\/a> that no one can prove the repeal of the policy known as &#8220;Don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; will <em>improve<\/em> military readiness; as a result, credence must be given to those who say it will detract from unit cohesion and morale.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Cohesion, camaraderie, [and] brotherhood [are] just as important as the weapons that are used by those military units,&#8221; Boykin contends. &#8220;When you destroy the integrity of that cohesion, you are in fact degrading the readiness of the military &#8212; and there is no question that it will destroy the cohesion within the military.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He also repeats the accurate but often dismissed point that the military routinely discriminates against people who might still be willing to serve their country:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He goes on to argue that serving in the military is not a constitutional right, and he points out that people have always been picked over when it comes to deciding who is allowed to join. &#8220;The military has always discriminated [with regard to] physical limitations, not finishing high school, [and] felony convictions,&#8221; the retired Army officer explains. &#8220;You have no &#8216;right&#8217; to serve in the military.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LtGen William Boykin (USA, Ret) has reportedly said that no one can prove the repeal of the policy known as &#8220;Don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; will improve military readiness; as a result, credence must be given to those who say it will detract from unit cohesion and morale. &#8220;Cohesion, camaraderie, [and] brotherhood [are] just as important as the weapons that are [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[219,2,1007],"class_list":["post-7291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-dadt","tag-military","tag-william-boykin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}