[T]hose gathered at Marine House made it clear they've already accepted the idea of gays and lesbians serving among them.
Of far more interest to them were other areas, they told Mullen, such as allowing women to serve in infantry units.
-- Navy Admiral Mike Mullen's sense of what concerns today's active-duty troops, based on a Q&A session between Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and "two dozen or so" rank-and-file servicemembers at a U.S. military facility in Amman, Jordan. Indeed, Mullen told McClatchy news reporter Nancy A. Youssef, he's done 3 of these sessions in the last couple weeks, and "not a single service member" has expressed any concern about the Obama Administration's moves toward putting an end to "Don't Ask Don't Tell," a 17-year-old U.S. military policy about which IntLawGrrls have posted here and here.
