Now that the military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” rule has been repealed it’s dropped off the front pages and the media has lost interest. But how is the military dealing with it? What kind of procedures have been put in place? What kind of rule changes? The following documents offer a glimpse into how the US Air Force is handling it. It’s nothing bad per say, it’s just incredibly bureaucratic and slightly amusing. All I can say about the source of these documents is that they came from inside the Air Force.

Signed Facilities Memo

Signed Chaplains Memo

Additional Repeal Scenarios

Hat tip to The Right Scoop for pointing out this gem. Amazing interview with the family of one of the Navy SEALs killed in a helicopter crash over the weekend in Afghanistan. After you watch click the link below the video to see how CNN censored Aaron Vaughn’s wife.

See how CNN censored Aaron Vaughn’s wife after she called her deceased husband a “warrior for Christ.”

This is so great. There are not many of these heros still alive. What an amazing experience for these young snipers and for this WWII veteran. To think what men like him were able to accomplish without any of the technological advantages the modern military has today.

Hat tip to our troops in Afghanistan for putting together this Britney Spears video.

The US military is becoming a cesspool of political correctness and diversity at any cost. It’s like Nancy Pelosi is in charge. Political correctness is what allowed a radical Muslim to move up the ranks and eventually gun down fellow soldiers in a terrorist attack.

Now this from the Navy Times:

The U.S. military is too white and too male at the top and needs to change recruiting and promotion policies and lift its ban on women in combat, an independent report for Congress said Monday.

Seventy-seven percent of senior officers in the active-duty military are white, while only 8 percent are black, 5 percent are Hispanic and 16 percent are women, the report by an independent panel said, quoting data from September 2008.

Efforts over the years to develop a more equal opportunity military have increased the number of women and racial and ethnic minorities in the ranks of leadership. But, the report said, “despite undeniable successes … the armed forces have not yet succeeded in developing a continuing stream of leaders who are as diverse as the nation they serve.”

“This problem will only become more acute as the racial, ethnic and cultural makeup of the United States continues to change,” said the report from the Military Leadership Diversity Commission, whose more than two dozen members included current and former military personnel as well as businessmen and other civilians.

Having military brass that better mirrors the nation can inspire future recruits and help create trust among the general population, the commission said.

Actually, the US military is about the only organization in America the public does trust. It’s diversity crusades like this that actually weaken that trust. I don’t give a damn what color or gender the people in charge are as long as they’re competent. Promoting people based on skin color or gender sounds like a very dangerous thing to do. Our national security is at stake.

Chinese Stealth Fighter (Chengdu J-20)

A report in The Daily Mail suggests where China got the technology to build its first stealth fighter jet. Incredibly, they got it from a downed American F-117 Nighthawk during the air war over Kosovo. A single F-117 Stealth fighter was shot down due to a mixture of luck and clever tactics. The pilot ejected safely, but wreckage from the craft was strewn over a wide area of farmland. Many locals took pieces of the wreckage as souvenirs.

Here’s the crazy part. Croatian military officials say they heard rumors at the time that Chinese agents were crisscrossing the region buying up pieces of the plane from farmers.

‘We believe the Chinese used those materials to gain an insight into secret stealth technologies… and to reverse-engineer them.’

A senior Serbian military official confirmed that pieces of the wreckage were removed by souvenir collectors, and that some ended up ‘in the hands of foreign military attaches’.

Pretty much all the cutting edge technology China has they’ve stolen from us. Sneaky bastards.

American F-117 Nighthawk (First US Stealth Aircraft)

Source: ABC
Many now question how Owen Honors was promoted in light of controversial videos.

Source: ABC

Bob Woodruff on the lengths one Sergeant went through to see his kid’s birth.

Source: Reuters

Defense Secretary Robert Gates urges Senators to repeal a 17-year-old policy which allows gays to serve in the armed forces as long as they keep their sexual orientation private. Jon Decker reports.