i dont really want this to be a debate.... BUT.. it is not much of an issue with new stright soldiers and new gay soldiers as it is with soldiers who are already in, dealing with soldiers who are gay, joining.

now do not get me wrong, plenty of units out there know of gay soldiers in the military already. but those particular homosexual soldiers joined understainding that they lost the right to be openly gay in the military. they joined soloey to join the military. then hid the fact that they were gay.
the people in those units knew about it and accepted that and kept it secret as well. Trusting there life along side one another.

im not saying gays are going to be bad soldiers but the amount of new "gay soldiers" who are completly able are going to end up pushing out other completely able soldiers from there jobs, making such soldier retire early.

(fyi, the Military has a quota, to go over that quota is not a good thing... "fed taxs pay for those soldiers, alot of money goes into those soldiers (including myself) thus there being a limit to the size of our military)

other soldiers who may have a prejudice arnt going to want these openly gay "i can finnaly be openly gay in the military" Soldiers around let alone in there SAME barracks.

do you think, they will organize and spend the extra money on spreate barracks?