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The president called military heads into the Oval Office in 2010 to give them an ultimatum: either accept Gays in the military, or resign, revealed Robert Papp, the Commandant of the Coast Guard.

Papp discussed the military's former Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy during a guest appearance at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy on January 8th.

When asked how officers should go about enforcing a policy that they disagree with, Papp responded, unless they "see anything terribly wrong with it," it is their duty to embrace it.

Even before he was President, in a 2008 interview with The Advocate, then-Senator Obama was outright in his belief that our military should be built on a foundation that emphasizes "what is going to make us safer, not ideology."

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