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It would seem the army is having trouble sticking to it’s policies on openly homosexual individuals serving within it’s ranks.
The Army, Navy and Air Force unwittingly advertised for recruits on a website for gays, who are barred from military service if they are open about their sexual orientation.
When informed Tuesday by USA TODAY that they were advertising on GLEE.com, a networking website for gay professionals, recruiters expressed surprise and said they would remove the job listings.
“This is the first I’ve heard about it,” said Maj. Michael Baptista, advertising branch chief for the Army National Guard, which will spend $6.5 million on Internet recruiting this year. “We didn’t knowingly advertise on that particular website,” which he said does not “meet the moral standards” of the military.
This is the same moral standard they’re holding the steadily increasing number of criminals recruited each year to… right?
Most of the military jobs posted were hard-to-fill positions requiring advanced training, although some ads sought to fill core combat slots at a time when the Iraq war has challenged recruiters to meet goals.
They included:
•Thousands of Navy openings for doctors, dentists, intelligence analysts, Arabic translators and others.
•Hundreds of Air Force jobs for optometrists, social workers, physician’s assistants and nurses.
•Nearly 1,000 Army National Guard and active Army positions, including infantry and artillery.
Wait a minute… Arabic Translators? Didn’t we just fire a whole bunch of them for… being gay? I would imagine that’s a bit of a slap in the face for any of them that might be job searching, you know, being unemployed and all- to see their former jobs being advertised for… on a GAY ORIENTED WEBSITE!
The ads were placed through GLEE’s parent company, New York-based Community Connect, as part of an alliance with jobs-listing giant Monster.com.
Betty Huang of Community Connect says the military services, through private ad agencies, bought Monster’s “diversity and inclusion” package, which includes posts on her company’s niche websites for Asian-Americans, blacks, Latinos and gays.
Oh right… the same groups that aren’t enlisting because President Bush “hates” minorities.
Well, I’m glad to see things are working out for Uncle Sam’s finest leaders. The way things are sounding, you’d think the military was just a big Klan rally waiting to happen. But hey, what would I know- the military took me, right?
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