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Army Promotes 1st Openly Gay General
Less than a year after the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the Army has promoted Tammy Smith to the rank of brigadier general, making her the first openly gay general in the US military, reports the Los Angeles Times. Smith stood with her commanding officer at the promotion ceremony, then her father was introduced along with her wife, Tracey Hepner. “This part is a little fuzzy for me, because I have to confess, I got choked up,” said one Army veteran and friend of the couple who attended the event. “People have been working toward this moment for decades.” A 26-year veteran who has served in Afghanistan and Costa Rica, Smith downplayed the social significance of her groundbreaking promotion. “I don’t think I need to be focused on that,” she said. “What is relevant is upholding Army values and the responsibility this carries.”
The new salute





Nutjob
August 12th, 2012
So which one is the man?
Col. Angus
August 12th, 2012
I woulda figured the one on the left for the husband. Every time I think I got the LGBT thing right, they throw in a ringer. This color blind tolerance stuff can be tricky at times.
Nutjob
August 12th, 2012
“What is relevant is upholding Army values and the responsibility this carries.”
Guess I missed out on something in school, So when did the army values change from being defenders of country to lifechoice relevance?
Katechon
August 12th, 2012
Let me guess : “she” is a socialist too?
Moe Tom
August 12th, 2012
Well ain’t that just fucking wonderful. General Ike to Gen.Dyke in such a short time.
Maudie N Mandeville
August 12th, 2012
Ya, this shouldn’t confuse our children.
TRACEY Hepner, co-founder of the Military Partners and Families Coalition, PINS HER WIFE’S first star to her shoulder during Brig. Gen. Tammy Smith’s promotion ceremony.
Then came an introduction: “Col. Smith’s PARTNER, Miss Tracey Hepner.”
It’s like nothing has really changed for us, and yet everything has changed.” HER WIFE, TRACEY Hepner.
Plain Jane
August 12th, 2012
In this photo they look like fraternal twins.
Maudie N Mandeville
August 12th, 2012
Lt. Gen. Jack C. Stulz echoed that, describing Smith as a “quiet professional” who could handle tough jobs competently and quickly.
Like what, taking the next hill?
Xavier
August 12th, 2012
Col. Angus is right – I’ve been told he’s a specialist in this area.
Maudie N Mandeville
August 12th, 2012
Lt. Gen. Jack C. Stulz echoed that, describing Smith as a “quiet professional” who could handle tough jobs competently and quickly.
General Smith, quick! We need more mashed potatoes on table #4!
Maudie N Mandeville
August 12th, 2012
Lt. Gen. Jack C. Stulz echoed that, describing Smith as a “quiet professional” who could handle tough jobs competently and quickly.
General Smith quietly and competently collated the female underwear purchases by size and quantity.
Chalupa
August 12th, 2012
Rank now describes the stench coming from Obama’s new PC Army.
LaBonBon
August 12th, 2012
I just lost my lunch.
Mr.Gates
August 12th, 2012
Abu Ghraib was run quietly and professionally by a woman Brigadier General too. Odd how that got so little attention in the press…
Moxie Man
August 12th, 2012
Gen. Tammy Smith is in charge of building barracks on the Isle of Lesbos, using the army’s new construction technique of “No studs – all tongue-in-groove.”
Buffalobob
August 12th, 2012
I was wondering who would command Big Sis’s Dept of Homeland Security’s Tea Party terrorists military task force. A perfect fit, so to speak.
Annie
August 12th, 2012
Hey, I don’t want a general named Tammy or Brandi or Tiffani. Rachael or Deborah would do.
Toaster
August 12th, 2012
is there any doubt that NOBODY gets promoted to Flag Officer in the US Armed Forces without being adherent to the Marxist PC bullshit?
BTW – Calling someone a “quiet professional” absolutely implies membership in the special forces community (and not as a do-nothing clerk either) so this is not just a single issue assault on the Army.
scizzorbill
August 12th, 2012
They do make a lovely couple, and they are a credit to their–er- gender?
Nutjob
August 12th, 2012
I’ll bet the only attachment her rifle has ever seen involves “C” cell batteries.
I’ll bet thats why she’s a general now, someone has to be in charge of all of them battteries.
Toaster
August 12th, 2012
I have a one finger salute for 0bama and his fellow travelers
fxdwg69
August 12th, 2012
Nobody cares about faggots. Nobody. Not even other faggots.
Jim
August 12th, 2012
meanwhile General Patton rolls over in his grave.
Callmelennie
August 12th, 2012
She can handle the tough jobs
Like using affirmative action and PC intimidation and leftist bureaucrats in the Dept of the Army to get herself promoted to general
dba...vagabond trader
August 12th, 2012
Wonder how many male and straight female peers or underlings were gay bullied by this one.
Anonymous
August 12th, 2012
Check out the title of another article from that site: “Man performs oral sex … on horse?”
“It’s like nothing else has changed for us, and yet everything has changed.” —you’ve said a mouthful, brother!
Joe
August 12th, 2012
How does General Bull Dyke sound?
God is not smiling, dearies.
Panhead Red
August 12th, 2012
Why don’t we just turn the entire military over to the queers and go shoot ourselves in the head before our enemies are asked to do just that by some clam sucking general who doesn’t like men?
Who the hell would want to take orders from a dyke? We would have to fill the ranks with submissive lesbians just to get anything done.
norman einstein
August 12th, 2012
That second picture makes me want to blow chunks.
Plain Jane
August 12th, 2012
I could never understand why anyone would buy those kinds of vibrators. I’ve finally figured it out: 1 + 1 = 3.
Plain Jane
August 12th, 2012
One thing to remember is that when lesbians get old, their sex drive diminishes – unless they take viagra. hee, hee!
Roscoe P. Soultrane
August 12th, 2012
I understand that she is to be in charge of training our Armored Cavalry units in clam jousting. Was I misinformed?
Roscoe P. Soultrane
August 12th, 2012
@Nutjob: “So when did the army values change from being defenders of country to lifechoice relevance?”
Immediately after WWII, when it was decided that winning wars was no longer important.
Roscoe P. Soultrane
August 12th, 2012
@Maudie N. Mandeville: “t. Gen. Jack C. Stulz echoed that, describing Smith as a “quiet professional” who could handle tough jobs competently and quickly.
Like what, taking the next hill?”
Or the next mons, at least.
Patches O'Houlihan
August 12th, 2012
All I know is that dyke can play!
tripseven
August 12th, 2012
Shouldnt that second pic be a fist…ing?
Richard 654
August 12th, 2012
Sorry. Does not bother me at all. Better to have it out in the open than have the secret a weapon to blackmail her.
But the WORD… “Marriage” does mean something, and this sho’nuff ain’t it.
Is that racist? Homophobic? Damned if I care.
Roscoe P. Soultrane
August 12th, 2012
If she’s a lesbian, why is she posing with Matthew Modine?
Toaster
August 12th, 2012
This is yet another part of the “Long March” through the institutions of the Cultural Marxists. They’ve thoroughly screwed the educational system already and have been at work on the Military for some time. Even more disturbing is the recent removal of God from Military Service (not just with the ghey marriage) in justifying the killing of others. Most significantly in the potential use of nuclear arms. If 0bama isn’t successful in disarming us of all nuclear weapons, our troops will probably not have the moral fortitude to use them if called upon to do so, a de-facto back door nuclear disarmament by the Marxist SOBs.
If by some miracle the 0bamanites leave the White House and Executive Branch this fall we have our work cut out for us in undoing the damage done by these vile people.
reddecaesari
August 12th, 2012
@moetom
brilliant.
Navy Squid
August 12th, 2012
General Patton could not be reached for comment.
(But I can hear the epithets coming from his grave from here!)
MADJACK
August 12th, 2012
Well Jesus H Christ!
Pass out the fuckin’ panty liners. We are goin’ ta hell in a hand basket.
I’ve had had it up to here with this continual shove it down our throats by the gay and lesbian front. I don’t give a flyin’ fuck what the left says, homos and lesbos are freaks of nature, period!
Tim
August 12th, 2012
I guess it doesn’t dawn on any of the brass PC crowd that they’re promoting someone with a serious mental deficiency?
Her wiring is skewed – and we’re screwed.
Drackxman
August 12th, 2012
So a Brigadier General Carpet Muncher…. LMAO
tripseven
August 12th, 2012
@MADJACK…Im with Bachmann when she said “Homosexuality is a sexual disorder.”
Sexual disorder = Mental disorder
Blacksmith8✡
August 12th, 2012
That is NOT my army.
Does this mean if an openly gay dud’ette’ moves to shake my hand, I can respond to his blatant overtly sexual assault as attempted murder?
Or should I just report to the re-education camp at my own expense and pray for a little credit for time served?
CharlieWalksonWater
August 12th, 2012
we WERE looking for a few good men, but these lezzies showed up so we took em.
SgtZim
August 12th, 2012
It’s in charge of contracting for the Army’s running shoes. I hear Dikes has the contract for runners with extra long tongues.
Sorry, I’ll probably get called on the carpet for that joke.
Nutjob
August 12th, 2012
@SgtZim
Clam it
Jerry Manderin
August 12th, 2012
Operation: Carpet Munch
FreeMan - Chick-fil-A today
August 12th, 2012
The Roman army turned gay right before the end too.
Make love not war
FreeMan - Chick-fil-A today
August 12th, 2012
Would that be a dishonorable discharge?
The Romans
August 12th, 2012
@Freeman: “The Roman army turned gay right before the end too.”
The Greeks didn’t even wait that long!
vangrungy
August 12th, 2012
This is only the beginning of the Pink and Multicolored Stripes.
note that pinks get way more representation than physical coloreds
Neo pink swastika
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Winterstorm
August 12th, 2012
I dont know much aboout this thing, but didnt she say that the fact that she is a lesbian isnt that important? While she should have said ‘isnt important at all’, the fact is that the most capable person for the position should have gotten the promotion, and if it happens to be her, then so be it.
If, however, this was a political appointment and she was not the most capable, or if she was too focused on her social cause and her duties to the military were an after thought, then thats a different story.
tripseven
August 12th, 2012
@Winterstorm…“If, however, this was a political appointment and she was not the most capable, or if she was too focused on her social cause and her duties to the military were an after thought, then thats a different story.”
And then there you have it!!!
Exactly why “Dont ask, dont tell” was a MUCH better policy than full-blown disclosure!
Moe Tom
August 12th, 2012
This promotion has obummer’s signature all over it.
Longknife 21
August 12th, 2012
How in the hell can a “General Officer” be promoted unless the offcer is capable of leading men (and now women) in combat? Does this woman have Infantry, Artillery, Armour, and Air Cav experience? Not to mention Combined Forces with Air Force and Navy.
She may be competent in her field, make her a CWO- 16 or something to satisfy the sillyness of the LGBT silly bitches, but don’t make these jokers into “General Officers” who some socialist idiot like Obama might really give them a real combat command.
This is too stupid for anyone with real experience to even read, but it is real in this unreal world! Old aircav pilot. Secession is the only answer. The Beltway Buffoons are totally out to lunch.
scr_north
August 13th, 2012
Hell, this is a tough one. I did a little googling and it seems that she has served for 26 years after graduating from University of Oregon. She has additional degrees from U of Phoenix (Doctorate of Organisational Mgmt), U of Webster (Masters Degree in Management) and a dregree from US Army War College (Master in Strategic Studies). She’s not a combat officer but rather serves in the quartermaster corps and for 25 years followed the don’t ask, don’t tell rule. The Army wouldn’t have kept her on if she didn’t do a good job as the higher you go the faster they cull non-perfomers regardless of gender. Remember that it was Obama and pushing the repeal through in December 2010 while the Dems still controlled both houses that started this.
I don’t think I can make the type of comments I’ve read about someone who chose to serve her country, didn’t come out of the closet until Obama and the Dems encouraged her to (for their own political advantage) and seems to have earned her star.
Bill
August 13th, 2012
What the hell is happening to my Army?
shockuhzulu
August 14th, 2012
R. Lee Ermey just started his own army.