Community | October 19, 2010 | 7 comments

DADT Suspended: Pentagon tells recruiters to accept gays

source: http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2010/10/ap-military-pentagon-tells-recruiters-accept-gay-a...

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The military for the first time in the nation’s history is accepting openly gay recruits, even as it tries in the courts to slow the movement to abolish “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

Some gay activist groups were planning to send people to enlist at recruiting stations to test the Pentagon’s Tuesday announcement.

Meanwhile, a federal judge in California — whose ruling last week brought the 17-year policy the closest yet to being overturned — was likely to reject the government’s latest effort to halt her order telling the military to stop enforcing the law.

The Defense Department has said it would comply with U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips’ order and had frozen any discharge cases. But at least one case was reported of a man being turned away from an Army recruiting office in Austin, Texas.

Pentagon spokeswoman Cynthia Smith said recruiters had been given top-level guidance to accept applicants who say they are gay.

Recruiters also have been told to inform potential recruits that the moratorium on enforcement of the policy could be reversed at any time, if the ruling is appealed or the court grants a stay, she said.

While activists were going to enlist, gay rights groups were continuing to tell service members to avoid revealing that they are gay, fearing they could find themselves in trouble should the law be reinstated.

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7 comments // DADT Suspended: Pentagon tells recruiters to accept gays

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  • advance1313
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      advance1313  

    • haha now Obama filed an injunction against this!!

      Liberals, pay attn! Obama does NOT have your best interests in mind, only his commie cohorts... just wait till he files an injunction against Prop 19 when it passes. Oh wait, Holder already promised to do that.

      The lesser of two evils is not good enough - vote Libertarian!

    • 1 year ago
  • XasthurNortt
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  • NickerBocker09
  • pukemnukem
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      pukemnukem  
    • NickerBocker09:

      Obama shouldn't get a damn bit of credit for this. Shit he is the one trying to get a stay on the ruling. Obama has to go down as one of the biggest failures to his supporters. I mean, Bush was an utter train wreck but at least he paid lip service to the people that got him into office and he sure as shit rewarded those that got him into office. I don't know what the fuck Obama is doing other than shitting on his supporters.

    • 1 year ago
  • ThoughtNu
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