MILITARY LEADERS - From left, Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr., Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead, Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Marine Corps Gen. James E. Cartwright, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James F. Amos, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz, and Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Robert Papp Jr. testify on the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy before the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington, D.C., Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. U.S. Army photo by D. Myles CullenA How-To Guide For A New Military -- New York Times
WASHINGTON — You are a commander of a ship, and one of your top-performing officers, who is known to be a lesbian, is at war with her roommate to the point that it is disrupting the entire unit. The officer asks you for new berthing. What do you do?
You are the senior officer at a busy military recruiting station, and your best recruiter has just told you that his religious beliefs prevent him from processing an outstanding applicant who volunteers that he is gay. What do you do?
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