{"id":7966,"date":"2010-11-08T00:25:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T05:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7966"},"modified":"2010-11-08T11:18:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T16:18:05","slug":"marine-general-opposes-dadt-repeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/08\/marine-general-opposes-dadt-repeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine General Opposes DADT Repeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update<\/span><\/strong>: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen\u00a0<\/em>expressed “surprise”<\/em><\/a> that General Amos aired his views opposing the administration’s push to end DADT, rather than keeping those comments private.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Associated Press reports General James Amos, newly installed Commandant of the Marine Corps, has continued his predecessor’s opposition<\/a> to a repeal of the policy known as “Don’t ask, Don’t tell.”\u00a0 (Nearly simultaneously, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates called for repeal “quickly.”<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The article notes one unique aspect of the Marines<\/a>:\u00a0 <\/p>\n

A repeal of the policy may have unique consequences for the Marines, which is exempt from a Defense Department rule for troops to have private living quarters. The Marines puts two people in each room to promote a sense of unity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The General also reportedly worries the repeal would “hurt combat readiness.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen\u00a0expressed “surprise” that General Amos aired his views opposing the administration’s push to end DADT, rather than keeping those comments private. The Associated Press reports General James Amos, newly installed Commandant of the Marine Corps, has continued his predecessor’s opposition to a repeal of the policy known as “Don’t ask, […]<\/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":[794,219,644,149,280,2],"class_list":["post-7966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-commandant-of-the-marine-corps","tag-dadt","tag-james-amos","tag-marines","tag-mike-mullen","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7966","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=7966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}