secretaries and nurses. Women soldiers have assumed many more responsibilities, especially in war zones. Transgender women wouldn't be out, they'd just have a first name change.

This guy is stuck in the 50s. That seems to be the problem with a lot of Republicans.

There's a whole would out there that isn't represented by "Leave it to Beaver" reruns, guys. Oh, and by the way, that was fiction, too.

Lenny detailed the hilarious ruse in his autobiography, "How to Talk Dirty and Influence People."

Lenny, no stranger to combat (he participated in four invasions), just felt it was time to move on, since the war in his part of the world was over.

I thought his story simply apocryphal, a fanciful tale for how he returned to civilian life, something he concocted for the stage. And when Jamie Farr explained how he modeled Klinger on Bruce, I took it as a wonderful homage.

In 2010, however, Navy records came to light that show it may have actually gone down the way Bruce explained.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/lenny-bruces-gay-naval-ruse

So the Congressman may not be far from the mark. The answer, of course, is for the military to accept people as they are.