One commenter wrote, “The don’t ask don’t tell worked just fine,” to which Chief Warrant Officer Bobby Yarbrough, a communications officer at Parris Island, offered this comeback: “I would imagine all the LGBT that was kicked out of the service would disagree.
No heterosexuals were kicked out due to sexuality. The policy was terrible and needed to go away.”Another said the Pride graphic went “totally against my morals and beliefs” and said the Marine Corps has come under “influences that do not belong.” Yarbrough responded, “No one is asking you do anything but accept them as themselves.”And to one who said the Marines shouldn’t be “a freaking social experiment,” Yarbrough replied, “This happened 10 years ago.