Asymmetric Military

I interrupt my blogging vacation (I'll be back tomorrow or Friday) for this important announcement. One of my first blogging buddies, Flag Gazer, wants us to help Susan Porcello win the AMW All Star contest. I don't know anything about Ms. Porcello except what's on the web page, but if Gazing says she's OK, that's good enough for me. I generally think that we should honor this kind of sacrifice than, say, not working for a corporation to organize a community (to shake down the corporation that you didn't work for). You can vote for her here.

We had Prevention of Sexual Harassment Training (POSH) today. Yes, people in the military take it too and, yes, it's as boring as it is in the civilian world.

Human interactions are complicated, but organizational policies can't afford to be which is why we get "zero-tolerance" type rules, which can be chilling, silly, and unfair.

My point in bringing this up is twofold: First, that sex-related issues in the Army are a problem worthy of a two-hour training in the Army and second, that these problems would be complicated to a great degree by having openly homosexual soldiers.

Part one, here.