Why change the way we always did it?
An Army base in Missouri used the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy to kick out more soldiers than any other military installation last year, followed by an Army base on the Kentucky-Tennessee border and a naval base in Virginia.
Sixty people were dismissed last year from Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, according to Defense Department documents shared with The Associated Press by the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. That was up from 40 discharges under the policy from the training facility in 2004.
The Pentagon has said there were 726 military members discharged under the policy last year — up 11 percent from the year before — but did not publicly release base-specific information.
Dr. Elizabeth Recupero, an internist and pediatrician discharged under the policy last year, said she is confident it will eventually be repealed.
“It’s going to be overturned because people are needed, and it’s not going to matter who they’re sleeping with,” she said. “We’re in a situation of high alert and war.”
Recupero was discharged last year after an investigation that lasted about five years. She was to be stationed at Fort Drum, New York, after doing her medical training but never served there, having been put on leave during the inquiry.
Recupero says she regrets the way things turned out. “I’m an honorable person,” she said. “I made a commitment to fulfill my duty, and I never got to do that, and I kind of feel lousy about this.”
Of course, you wouldn’t want someone with [those] ethical standards in the US military.
If they were going to send me to Iraq I might turn gay as well.
me too.
guess that beats the old kilinger jokes from MASH about trying to get out on a crazy discharge
Ya know,
Its funny…
REALLY REALLY funny.
Lets go back about 200+ years and FIND all the gays, and kick them out, or expunge what they have done.
Might as well, be the NEXT White, Blue eye’d, Blonde military group.
Sound familure??
True story.
When my father was drafted for Vietnam he paid a guy who said he had syphilis $20 to take his urine test. Didn’t work: My old man still passed the urine test.
Then, when the army processor found out my father’s hand had been crushed in a printing press, he was discharged under the assumption he couldn’t fire a weapon. My father went on to be a detective in St. Louis for nine years, won multiple shooting championships, and even shot a few suspects.
The kicker? He failed his Army entrance exam at Ft. Leonard Wood.
I can see how this could be difficult for some people, after all, you do have both “don’t ask” and “don’t tell” to deal with.
RBG
“Recupero was discharged last year after an investigation that lasted about five years.”
A five year investigation leads me to believe that it is the army that needs to be reminded what “Don’t ask” means. This besides the fact that it is not only this soldier that is lost in a moment of need, but however many other soldiers were spending time investigating her for the last five years.
And after we loose this war because a bunch of non-task minded, morally righteous ninnies wasted all our effort doing stupid, stupid things, I’m sure you’ll blame the fags for that too.
Maybe the Army could do a 5 year investigation into exactly how long an investigation should take for appearance sake.
RBG
If you don’t ask they won’t tell why your enlistment has been extended.
I wonder if the Army payed for her medical training.
apparently the army did pay Mr. Fusion…..it was what she was talking about when she mentioned she wasn’t able to honor her comitment.
It appears according to the article I just read in the Tennisian newspaper that people are using the policy to blackmail former lovers, family members and others with exposure as revenge and the numbers have gone up due to that as well as str8 soldiers using it to get out.
I read last week of a 12 year vet. being discharged after an anoymous call was made to his commanding officer that he was gay….he said they flat out asked him if he was gay…a direct violation of the policy and when he said yes….to avoid lying…he was given an honorable discharge. He was an Arabic translator…a desperatly needed person.
This policy has to end. Gays serve in almost all the armies of our allies without a problem. Including Israel’s.
What the heck is wrong with our military when they kick out perfectly good soldiers because they are gay but then let in guys like Steven Green who had a “personality disorder” that was apparently quite obvious.
Something is really wrong with our military’s values when they are letting in more and more people with drug histories, criminal records and even gang affiliations. But not gays who are minding their own business? That’s just wacko!
Alexander the great faught an ALL gay military…
Alaexander had 10/1…
After the battle he had lost about 1/2 his army.
He found the Person in charge of the other side, and congratuated him.
Dont think I need say much about Ghandis Chan and ALL those Hores..
ECA…Alexander fought with his father against the Thebians….not the Spartans. The Thebians had a group called The Sacred Band of Thebes…which was 150 homosexual couples and were the best troops the city states had. Phillip and Alexander beat off the entire army, but the band refused to flee and 254 of them were killed and the rest wounded. Phillip praised them after and raised a memorial to them where they were all buried.
Alexander never fought against Sparta.