U.S. Military Ready For Openly Gay Troops: Army Secretary

The U.S. military might be ready to allow openly gay troops from serving the armed forces, according to an interview in the Army Times.

 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. military might be ready to allow openly gay troops from serving the armed forces, according to an interview in the Army Times.

Secretary of the Army John McHugh told the Times that the repeal of the “Don’t ask, Don’t tell” policy is possible if both Congress and President Barack Obama do it.

Obama seemed up to the policy change during his recent speech at the annual dinner of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay civil rights advocacy group.

Obama said, “We should not be punishing patriotic Americans who have stepped forward to serve the country.”

That said, skeptics noted that Obama failed to give a timetable for implimentation.

McHugh said plans have not been discussed as to where soldiers who are homosexual will be allowed to serve.

However, he added that there are no signs that would indicate the Army would rebel if the ban ended.

“The Army has a big history of taking on similar issues, [with] predictions of doom and gloom that did not play out,” McHugh said.