Letters to the Editor
-
More background
Here's a great link with lots of documents regarding the March-July 1993 hearings on gays in the military. You'll see lots of familiar names, not just Nunn's. McCain, JCS Chair Colin Powell, General McPeak, Norman Schwarzkopf...they're all there.
http://dont.stanford.edu/hearings/hearings.htm
The hearings on "unit cohesion" in March 1993 were particularly interesting. Incidentally, the author of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, Charles Moskos, has been quoted in recent years as completely disowning the "unit cohesion" argument. In fact, what he said specifically, was "Fuck unit cohesion," his issue is, he just doesn't want to shower with gay guys.
I had just gotten back from a six-month tour in Kuwait with my air defense artillery battery and was assuming a platoon leader position when these jokers decided to have a hearing on whether I was fit to serve in the military.