Look, I've been here what? Ten days? And already, I've met more queer servicemembers or former servicemembers than I can easily relate. It's a simple fact: gay people love the uniform in equal proportion to everyone else, perhaps more so. If they join to 'travel to new places, meet new people, and kill them' or because there are significant social, professional, and financial benefits to doing so, it hardly matters. This shit has got to stop:

The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network has issued a statement warning lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender members of the US Military to use caution when posting personal information online or using the Internet in other ways to convey such information.

The SLDN warning came in the wake of an Associated Press article which described military officials and their reviewing of "official and unofficial blogs and other Web sites." Military bloggers who are deployed, according to the AP, are required to let commanders know about their site. Such sites are monitored quarterly.