Bilerico.com: What Real Marines Do
Marine Corps Captain Joshua Gibbs started his career in the Corps in 1998 as a Reserve tank driver and has done two tours in Iraq. He’s a well-respected, highly decorated officer who has served our country well. And, he’s an outspoken heterosexual ally of the lesbian and gay community. In fact, he’s such an eloquent advocate of LGBT service personnel that the United States Marine Corps has shipped him off to Japan after he dared to speak out against “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” In what appears to be an unbelievable ‘first,’ the U.S. military has seemingly punished a heterosexual service member for speaking out against the ban.
The Marine Corps Times op-ed by Captain Gibbs wasn’t his first; he’s written about many other topics in the news before. It also wasn’t unprecedented; other active duty officers have questioned the ban in the same newspaper before. But the Marine Corps’ response – to reassign Captain Gibbs and order him not to talk to the media again – is unusual and unacceptable. Gibbs has spent his military career fighting to protect, among other things, the American people’s freedom of speech. In return, the country he serves has stripped him of that same right. But I have a feeling Captain Gibbs will return and fight with us again . . . because that's what real Marines do.
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