Will sensitivity training help Marines adapt to homosexuals openly serving without affecting combat proficiency?

Why should it matter that If they like the Same Sex or not?! As long as they can do their job and don't cause issues. It's just my take on it.

Why are such questions always worded like this? How about wording these frequent inquiries and surveys so that answering issues about the burden of adjustment is on the "unique" individual, and not the "non-unique" mass majority? My vote is, for example, making the non-English-speaking people "PRESS 1" on their telephones!!!

Keep it in your pants. If you can't you have no business being a soldier. The only time sexual preference should come into play with combat, is when someone having gender reassignment surgery, needing to take hormone replacement, then they should be considered undeployable.

My biggest thing is showering. If you think about it we might as well authorize co-ed showering/co-habitation. Its the same principle. Correct me if Im Wrong

I saw it too. In 1972 I had to go to a black sensitivity class.

CPT Jack Durish - I would suggest that arduous training, weapons' firing, tactics, physical fitness, discipline, and leadership are on the "short list" of things that contribute to the Corps "combat proficiency." Sexual orientation hasn't impacted the Corps' ability to put hot lead on target. Never once in a fire-fight has someone called "cease fire" and asked how we can all just get along. This current generation of warriors has already dealt with what the older generation could not: Gays in uniform. It's almost passe. There will continue to be biases among the ranks: racial, sexual, religious, etc. But when hot lead it flying down range, the warrior focusses on their job, their fellow service-member, and accomplishing the mission.

If it's done right, sure. Otherwise it will just rub feathers the wrong way...

Sensitivity training sounds like an aggravation to me that won't produce any meaningful readiness. If anything I imagine a marine saying 'now because of you I have to sit through this class'. Any way you categorize a human their effectiveness will ultimately be seen and tested like all other humans in the same situation. How will National Guard stand in war? Seen it over the past decade and they did just fine. How will women fare in combat roles? Seen that over the past decade. How will homosexuals do in combat? Well we've also seen that, plenty of homosexuals in the military went to war in the past decade. Will marines have some minor identity crisis because of openly serving homosexuals? doubt it, sensitivity training to highlight it seems like it would make it worse... or make a problem where there is none.

Sensitivity training [and any of these style programs] does not replace damn good leadership.