{"id":19136,"date":"2010-05-15T16:34:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T21:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19136"},"modified":"2010-05-15T17:08:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T22:08:34","slug":"its-called-dont-tell-for-a-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19136","title":{"rendered":"It’s called “Don’t Tell” for a reason"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sparky and Jerry920 both sent an article to us about some poor victimized Military Science student who may end up owing the Army $80,000 for her four years of out-of-state tuition at UNC because she suddenly became a lesbian after the Army paid for her education (from The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a>);<\/p>\n

Ms. Isaacson, who identified as a straight woman when she started college, says she acknowledged to herself last November that she was lesbian. After consulting with trusted friends and advisers on the campus, she revealed her orientation in a formal memorandum to Lt. Col. Monte Yoder, head of the university’s Army ROTC program. That put her in violation of Defense Directive 1304.26, better known as Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the 1993 Clinton administration compromise that allows gay people to serve in the military as long as they do not divulge their sexual orientation.<\/p>\n

She was notified in March that she was being discharged and told that a recommendation had been made that she repay $79,265.14 to the government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess that’s why you shouldn’t tell since no one is asking. Should straight ROTC cadets confess their sexual habits to their MS advisers, too? From Fox News;<\/p>\n

“I didn’t feel like I could be a good officer if I didn’t have integrity,” she told the Chronicle of Higher Education.<\/p>\n

Lt. Col. Monte Yoder, head of the university’s Army ROTC program, said Ms. Isaacson would never have had to talk about her sexual orientation at all.<\/p>\n

“I was very clear with Miss Isaacson about that,” he told the Chronicle. “I told her I won’t ask.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See how “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” works? Did she think the Army would just go ahead let her skate on 80 grand tax payer dollars? You owe us, Ms. Isaacson – will that be cash or a cashier’s check?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sparky and Jerry920 both sent an article to us about some poor victimized Military Science student … It’s called “Don’t Tell” for a reason<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}