a very important part of your life. yeah. well, let me ask you about the military s reaction from viewers saying well, let me go to aubrey, because you ve been having to lobby this thing and fight it. with stacy, and with many, many service members. i ve known you forever. well, let me ask you about the opposition for the marine corps. that was at the high, the top, the marine chief of staff. you re talking about then general pace. yeah. and fair enough, this is what his position was, that s his honest position, or opposition to this. does that remain at the high level? is there some people who say at the top, we shouldn t be doing this? no, absolutely not. what we saw when the certification, and by that i mean, the chairman of the joint chiefs, the secretary of the defense, and commander in chief certified to congress that the services were ready for this change. admiral mullen made that certification in consultation with all of his colleagues. all the other chiefs. and
important, here, chris, is that these service members came out today who elected to do so. but there was no penalty. they did so without any risk of being fired because they spoke to their sexual orientation. some service members elected not to come out today. that s very interesting. some may come out next week or next year. but the important thing is they no longer have to lie about who they are. and what s truly important is that we got rid of a very discriminatory law. and for that, we owe a great deal of gratitude to the chairman of the joint chiefs, admiral mullen, to secretary gates, the defense secretary, and to president obama. had it not been for those three individuals, we would not be celebrating the repeal of don t ask, don t tell today. what must be interesting is the well, you ve been in this society. are you going to reup? i am. i m actually in the process. i m taking my physical next week. how about you, aubrey? you going back in?
society. are you going to reup? i am. i m actually in the process. i m taking my physical next week. how about you, aubrey? you going back in? i don t think i meet the current age requirement. what is phenomenal, and people watch this show, we have gay people that watch this show, and i certainly hope we have a whole bunch of them, but it seems to me what s fascinating now is the society. people who go to the board room with their fellow officers, people that are down in the mess hall, people that are going out this weekend and talking about their last weekend. now other people can go up to them and say, what are you doing this weekend? you can ask a fellow member that you think might be gay, and you can say, what are you doing this weekend, damn it, i ll tell you what i m doing. it works both ways. there isn t going to be this fear of apprehending people or scaring people or intimidating. you want to know what i m doing this week, i m going to go out with joe this weekend, or
go out and do their job and serve our country. and to our point, it builds even greater trust and camaraderie that you can be honest every day about who you are. you no longer have to lie about a very important part of your life. yeah. well, let me ask you about the military s reaction from viewers saying well, let me go to aubrey, because you ve been having to lobby this thing and fight it. with stacy, and with many, many well, let me tell you, because i ve known you forever. let me ask you about the opposition in the marine corps. that was at the high, the top, the marine chief of staff. you re talking about then general pace. yeah. and fair enough, this is what his position was, that s his honest position, or opposition to this does that remain at the high level? is there some people who say at the top, we shouldn t be doing this? no, absolutely not. what we saw when the certification, and by that i mean, the chairman of the joint chiefs, the secretary of the defen
safe and secure and be able to go out and do their job and serve our country. and to your point, it builds even greater trust and camaraderie that you can be honest every day about who you are. you no longer have to lie about a very important part of your life. yeah. well, let me ask you about the military s reaction from viewers saying well, let me go to aubrey, because you ve been having to lobby this thing and fight it. with stacy, and with many, many service members. i ve known you forever. well, let me ask you about the opposition for the marine corps. that was at the high, the top, the marine chief of staff. you re talking about then general pace. yeah. and fair enough, this is what his position was, that s his honest position, or opposition to this. does that remain at the high level? is there some people who say at the top, we shouldn t be doing this? no, absolutely not. what we saw when the certification, and by that i mean, the chairman of the joint chiefs, th