ultimately being thrown out of the u.s. military. the service members legal defense networks represents gay and lesbian service members and they issued a statement this morning saying quote at this time sldn cannot recommend that lesbian, gay or bisexual service members participate in any survey being administered by the department of defense. what they are talking about is the survey that went out yesterday to 400,000 members of the military, more than 100 questions asking them what they think the issues are to be implemented in the military if and when "don't ask, don't tell" is repealed. that is up to the president and congress to do. the idea is military members are now being asked their opinion and their views quite remarkable about the implementation challenges. the questions are remarkably intimate. it starts by basically asking service members in a unit that you serve in, if you knew your commander was gay or lesbian,