Its all about the Uniform

Civilians reported killed by military intervention in Iraq

Min Max

41639 46307



Estimated amount the U.S. military has spent since 1994 to replace service members discharged for being gay: $364,000,000



Number of AK-47s that have gone missing after being sent by the Pentagon to Iraq last summer: 26,000



Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

The big gun is out


The Military Ban on Heterosexuals DOD Directive 1332.14 (Enlisted Administrative Separations), January, 1981 - rewritten. "Heterosexuality is incompatible with military service. The presence in the military environment of persons who engage in heterosexual conduct or who, by their statements, demonstrate a propensity to engage in heterosexual conduct, seriously impairs the accomplishment of the military mission. The presence of such members adversely affects the ability of the armed forces to maintain discipline, good order, and morale on long deployments to primitive environments where contact or communication between members and family members is impossible; to prevent incidents of sexual harassment which undermine the system of rank and command; to prevent pregnancies during deployments or unwanted children in host countries of deployments. This paraphrase of the ban (authored by me) appeared in The Washington Blade on Dec. 20, 1996. It also appears as Appendix 1 in the DADT book. Ó Bill Boushka, 1996 (reproduction permitted with proper attribution including this web address).