{"id":22070,"date":"2011-02-03T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22070"},"modified":"2011-02-03T16:43:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T20:43:55","slug":"democrats-ask-dod-to-recharaterize-discharges-of-dadt-violators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22070","title":{"rendered":"Democrats ask DoD to recharacterize discharges of DADT violators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry guys, but you knew at the time coming out of the closet would get you discharged. Too late now. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/democrats-ask-dod-to-allow-ousted-gays-to-appeal-for-honorable-discharge-1.133726\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A group of House Democrats want troops previously dismissed under the \u201cdon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u201d law to be able to apply for honorable discharge status, opening the door for them to receive veterans benefits.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates last month, House Armed Services Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., and two colleagues asked Pentagon officials to look into the possibility of allowing those troops to petition the boards of correction to upgrade their status to an honorable discharge, if they received a lesser distinction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There should be no Mulligans. They made their choices, for whatever reasons. Nothing could be more detrimental to good order and discipline. It&#8217;s like giving amnesty to draft dodgers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry guys, but you knew at the time coming out of the closet would get you &hellip; <a title=\"Democrats ask DoD to recharacterize discharges of DADT violators\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22070\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Democrats ask DoD to recharacterize discharges of DADT violators<\/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-22070","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\/22070","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=22070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}