{"id":18242,"date":"2010-03-25T14:31:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T19:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18242"},"modified":"2010-03-25T17:42:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T22:42:40","slug":"new-policies-regarding-dadt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18242","title":{"rendered":"New Policies Regarding DADT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Gates announced changes today to Don’t Ask Don’t Tell<\/a> which are intended to make it more difficult to discharge service members for violating DADT. From what I can tell, there are two real modifications being made to DADT that are effective today. The first modification mandates that only general officers (brigadier or higher) can initiate an inquiry into whether or not someone violated DADT. Also, general officers are now the only ones that can start discharge proceedings for violating DADT. I don’t know how big of a change this really is however. In my experience in 1st Marine Division, general officers usually had to sign off on any type of discharge that wasn’t related to EAS or EOS. This included med boards, early outs for college, bad conduct discharges, and I would assume discharges related to DADT. They already had at least some involvement in the discharge process. This just seems to be a clarification on who is ultimately responsible for discharging someone who has violated DADT and limits a general officer’s ability to pawn off that responsibility on a lower-ranking officer. Without a doubt, it is going to make it harder to discharge someone under DADT, since a general isn’t going to want to devote a signficant amount of time to investigating someone’s sex life.<\/p>\n

The second modification attempts to prevent someone from being discharged under DADT for being outed by a third-party (i.e. a pissed off ex-boyfriend\/girlfriend, law enforcement, etc.). I personally support this change 100 percent. It is not fair for someone who is following DADT to the letter to be outed by a party outside of the military or by a scorned lover and then be subsequently discharged. Granted, in a lot of these stories you hear in the media\u00a0 about gays getting discharged for being outed by a third party, I think there is often more to the story on why they are getting kicked out. But in the instances where someone was doing the right thing and obeying the rules, it is not right to discharge them over another person’s word.<\/p>\n

As I have stated before, I don’t think there is going to be an outright appeal of DADT anytime soon. The Obama administration has other more important priorities and any attempted repeal is going to be another bloody fight in Congress in an election year. I don’t think he has the political capital (or will) to completely repeal the policy this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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