Soldiers fraternizing with fellow soldiers is this new situation...if we ignore the last 2500 years.

Even so, something still doesn't feel right about the US' current military affair. When in desperate need of Arabic translators, why would you then dump any for mere gayhood? Consider a little perspective—hell, if the enemy's own century's-old policy is to chop off gayboys' heads and they'll still agree to talk Arabic to them, who are we to get twisted over it?

In the end, whatever the merit of their being over there in the first place, these men and women all risk getting their asses seriously shot off for us, so is the ass shape they prefer off-hours really worth getting all hot and sweaty over?