Army Secretary expresses confidence that Army could adjust with end of gay ban
”I don’t want to prejudge the situation. I am saying if he [the President] did that, it would be my job to explain it when the appropriate time comes…. Anytime you have a broad-based policy change, there are challenges to that. The Army has a big history of taking on similar issues, [with] predictions of doom and gloom that did not play out.”
Army Secretary John McHugh responding to the Army Times about the increasingly likelihood that the US Congress &/or President Obama may put an end to the military’s policy that bans gay servicemembers. He did not offer his personal feelings about ”Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” though. (Army Times)
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