Some Marines wary of lifting military’s ban on openly gay troops

They are the few, the proud and perhaps the military’s biggest opponents of lifting the ban on openly gay troops.

Most of those serving in America’s armed forces have no strong objections to repealing the "don’t ask, don’t tell" law, according to a Pentagon survey of 400,000 active duty and reservists that is scheduled for release Tuesday.

But the survey found resistance to repealing the ban strongest among the Marines, according to the Washington Post. It’s an attitude apparently shared by their top leader, Commandant Gen. James Amos, who has said that the government should not lift the ban in

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