INFORMATION ABOUT THE UNITED STATES MILITARY AND WHO CAN SERVE - PLEASE MAKE A NOTE

Best response I've seen in regards to the the negative feedback about transgenders being banned from the military...

On joining the military:

Nobody has a RIGHT to serve in the military.  Nobody!!!

What makes people think the military is an equal opportunity employer???  Very far from it!!!

The military uses prejudice regularly and consistently to deny citizens from joining for being too old or too young, too fat or too skinny, too tall or too short.

Citizens are denied for having flat feet, or for missing or additional fingers.  Poor eyesight will disqualify you, as well as bad teeth.  Malnourished?  Drug addiction?  Bad back?  Criminal history?  Low IQ?  Anxiety?  Phobias?  Hearing damage?  Six arms?  Hear voices in your head?  Self-identify as a Unicorn?  Need a special access ramp for your wheelchair?  Can't run the required course in the required time?  Can't do the required number of push-ups?

Not really a 'morning person' and refuse to get out of bed before 7:30 a.m.?

All can be reasons for denial.

The military has one job.  WAR (We break things and kill bad people) Anything else is a distraction and a liability.

Did someone just scream 'That isn't Fair'?  War is VERY unfair, there are no exceptions made for being special or challenged or socially wonderful.

YOU change yourself to meet military standards - not the other way around.

I say again:  You don't change the military... you must change yourself!!!

The military doesn't need to accommodate anyone with special issues.  The military needs to WIN WARS.

If any of your personal issues are a liability that detract from readiness or lethality, the military thanks you for applying and good luck in future endeavors.  Who's next in line???

Signed:

Sgt. Robert Brown, US Army

From an email.............. could not agree more!

THIS HAS LEFT ME SPEECHLESS... AND THAT IS NOT AN EASY TASK!

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — An independent commission led by a former U.S. surgeon general has concluded there “is no compelling medical reason” for the U.S. armed forces to prohibit transgender Americans from serving and that President Barack Obama could lift the decades-old ban without approval from Congress, according to a report being released Thursday.

The ban also appears based on the assumption that providing hormone treatment and sex reassignment surgeries would be too difficult, disruptive and expensive. But the commission rejected those notions as inconsistent with modern medical practice and the scope of health care services routinely provided to non-transgender military personnel. 

Ok - let me see if I have this right.

This administration has reduced military benefits, including pay increases for retired military, combat pay, medical benefits for wounded warriors, medical benefits for retirees, and is after the PX/BX stores and commissaries in order to cut the budget..... TO GET MORE MONEY TO POUR INTO SOCIAL PROGRAMS [read that as more money to buy votes] yet THE MILITARY CAN AFFORD ALL THE MEDICAL BAGGAGE THAT TRANSGENDER G.I.'S WOULD BRING TO THE JOB!!!!!!!!!! 

And this P.O.S. in the White House can do this with his 'pen' and bypass Congress?

Yep.... didn't think it would happen, but this 'study' leaves me speechless!

Read the complete article here:

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/03/13/commission-finds-no-compelling-medical-reason-to-exclude-transgender-americans-from-military/