How do I verify this fact about the army?

Your analogy is meaningless, much like comparing apples and oranges. It is also doubly meaningless in that gays can serve openly in the US military. You are poorly informed. You also can't possibly understand the problems we will face with this change because you have never served in the Military To you it is a cool thing to post about on line. To us it will be a logistical nightmare and we will have many problems as we work it out. No doubt at some point in the next couple years a few gay Soldiers will be beaten to death by their fellow Soldiers thus ending one life and ruining another. And through all that, we will deal with it and come out stronger. If you want to help, you can enlist.