{"id":26025,"date":"2011-07-30T09:34:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T13:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26025"},"modified":"2011-07-30T09:34:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T13:34:34","slug":"recruiters-urged-to-reach-out-to-gay-recruits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26025","title":{"rendered":"Recruiters urged to reach out to gay recruits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;And so it begins (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/jul\/28\/group-wants-military-recruiters-to-target-gays-aft\/\">Washington Times<\/a> link)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>J.D. Smith, an active-duty Air Force officer who founded OutServe, said the military should think of gays when recruiting. \u201cJ.D. Smith\u201d is an alias he uses because the ban is still in effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely, we endorse the DoD advertising recruiting for the gay community, just as they would any other community,\u201d he said in an email exchange with The Washington Times. \u201cThe DoD regularly attends public events to recruit, and we believe they should be at Pride events next year around the country to let the gay community know the opportunities to serve their nation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why would they need an out reach program? I got the impression from the debate over the repeal of DADT, that there are millions of gays just waiting for the ban to be lifted so they can join the military. I thought they&#8217;d be lined up around the block at recruiting stations around the country on the day the ban is lifted.<\/p>\n<p>I can imagine the abuse to which recruiters would be subjected at the Fulton Street Fair. If it doesn&#8217;t already, San Francisco would be considered a hazardous duty assignment for recruiters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;And so it begins (Washington Times link) J.D. Smith, an active-duty Air Force officer who founded &hellip; <a title=\"Recruiters urged to reach out to gay recruits\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26025\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Recruiters urged to reach out to gay recruits<\/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-26025","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\/26025","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=26025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}