Commandant of the Marine Corps and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General James Amos has been widely reported to have said the repeal of DADT would cause “distractions” that could “cost Marine lives.”<\/p>\n
Amos was widely criticized<\/a>, with some even calling for his resignation for being “out of step with his own bosses<\/a>.”\u00a0 Apparently critics failed to realize its the responsibility<\/em> of the Chiefs of Staff to provide such advice to the President.\u00a0 It is not their job to be “yes men.”\u00a0 Interestingly, there was speculation Amos had been chosen by Obama for both his pensive reservation and for his views on DADT<\/a> (both of which seem to have been proven contrary to perception).<\/p>\n Still, Amos specifically said civilian leadership of the military in the US would be respected<\/a>.<\/p>\n This weekend, Congress voted<\/a> to repeal the law<\/a> banning homosexuals from serving in the military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Commandant of the Marine Corps and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General James Amos has been widely reported to have said the repeal of DADT would cause “distractions” that could “cost Marine lives.” Amos was widely criticized, with some even calling for his resignation for being “out of step with his own bosses.”\u00a0 Apparently critics failed to realize […]<\/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":[78,219,644,149,2],"class_list":["post-8542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-congress","tag-dadt","tag-james-amos","tag-marines","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8542","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=8542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}