What do you think about lifting the ban on the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy?

You should back-up your answer with sufficient reason. I personally was in until 2008. I was in the Marine Corps and went on 3 tours to Iraq. Since my time in service, I never knew anyone to be gay but that might be in part due to being in an infantry unit. The guys in an infantry unit are so close that this type of ual preference would not go unknown. However, the discussion has come up before and it has led to be seen that the policy is put in place not to repress gays, but rather protect them. Call me crazy all you want but don't think for a moment that if you tell a recruiter that you are gay, that they wont narrow your list of jobs to a selected few. Same is to be said if you are already part of a unit.....don't think that you wont get transferred to a different unit with a different billet. Logistically speaking, this will be a nightmare. Women and Men already must sleep in different quarters, and now new quarters will have to be built for those because they have a different ual preference. It's truly not fair to Gays or the tax payers. If you preach about your tax payer dollars being wasted on the military now, just wait until they start spending it on new quarters for gays. Those building are not cheap people. Not only that but hazing is already a huge issue in the military, and it just became a whole lot bigger. Fact is that most matters are handled at a unit level so cases where hazing does take place will result in minimal punishment for the hazer and more then likely a unit transfer to a crappy unit and duty for the Gay. The most important part of the policy was the "don't ask" section which kept Gays from being discriminated against. One last thing is that even without the policy, the military is going to tell you that you still cannot be gay and in the military. The policy is not what was keeping gays from being in the military but it was the acknowledgment or asking of being gay which was the issue. So it is very simple now without the policy for the military to ask you if you are gay, and remove you if you are. So again, I ask that you be very clear in what you think about the ban being lifted.