NEW SHOW: Unfit For Service

There was constant sniping, constant gunfire.

I had a lot of adrenaline. I saw what these warlords did.
They just didn't shoot somebody and move on. They massacred them.
Let me tell you a story about this soldier. This man, Randy Taylor.
Randy is a fierce patriot. He's dedicated his life to serving his country as a member of the U.S.
Army. He believes in defending his country and its constitution with all his heart.
He's been living through years of training, so he knows how to think clearly and calmly in life and death situations. So I went to the television and watched the news play in real time, and then we all just prepared as if we were going to war.
But Randy Taylor faces another battle for which he's had no training, no support. The worst way he could ever characterize anybody is that they would be gay.
This was something that my stepfather ridiculed about quite often. I just wanted to be left alone.
I didn't want the public spectacle of this. The issue is not whether there should be homosexuals in the military.
Everyone concedes that there are. The issue is whether men and women who can and have served with real distinction should be excluded from military service solely on the basis of their status.
It's a fight that'll leave him isolated. At any moment, he could lose everything.
And that's because, throughout his career, the U.S. military is trying to throw out people just like him.
It almost felt like it was hunting for sport, outing people just because you could.

You're dealing with a population there that is trained to hunt other humans. That was during the peak discharge years of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
Military police and senior army leaders looking for gay soldiers to apprehend. I'm Eric Marcus, and from Waveland and Vespucci,

this is Unfit for Service.

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