No longer Joints Chiefs head, he now backs homosexuals in the military.

"These conversations showed me just how much the military has changed, and that gays and lesbians can be accepted by their peers."

After meeting with a group of homosexual servicemen, retired Joint Chiefs Chairman General John Shalikashvili called for an end to the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy he backed when he held the nation's highest military post during the Clinton administration.