Pentagon Halts Obama's Transgender Endorsement Plan - Breitbart

I have to agree with the decision. However, before the "hate" starts coming my way, it is not due to myself not wanting the military to be a "social experiment," it is a matter of "maximum lethality" of the force. As a retired member and now civil service with the Army, I (we) recieve the same annual training the uniformed members recieve and just recently "we" received the first transgender integration training. For civil servants there was no real change in daily business, yet for the uniformed members the changes were significant. Commanders had to come up with a transition plan with the individual, allowing time for medical care and eventual reassignment (if wanted). I have been told that this doesn't affect anyone with the exception of the member transitioning. Well for those who are living in a bubble the command requirements and finite resources required are clearly affecting more than the individual concerned. I am not against trans gender service members openly serving and with that being said, the transition needs to be solely on the member's shoulders (including bearing the cost, not the taxpayer, associated with the transition) while balancing the training or deployment requirements. Given the volatility of the international stage, the military needs to focus on more pressing needs and must make unpopular decisions to ensure lethality on a "fluid" battlefield..

I pretty much knew before clicking on the article what Gen.Mattis would say and he said it...! I agree with him. The United States Military is not the place to experiment with social and political issues....It is there to protect the United States of America with no distractions.

I may get flak for this, but I agree with Mattis and the experiment should not be in the military. I have know individuals in the service that had . . . issues with their gender, and that is just how they feel. I have not one thing against people like this, I have many friends that have alternative life styles, even one that has lesbian mothers and a gay father. I just looked at some of the pictures of this though and thought "That is NOT the military I served" and it was disheartening to a point. Think of how other nations look at us. Are we progressive, of the now, weak? I am not sure what message this sends, but laughing stock I am sure is in there somewhere.

I just have a hard time, personally, taking men in skirts seriously. Perhaps that is a personality flaw in myself, perhaps I don't care. I just know that they people represent the United States of America. I think this may send the wrong message.