Friday, July 30, 2004
The Washinton Blade reports that "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" continues to bite the military in the butt with 6200 discharges since 1998. To add insult to injury, as they are reactivating 68-year-old doctors for service, the Pentagon doesn't see a need for curtailing anti-gay harassment.
in 1999 the Department of Defense Inspector General surveyed 72,000 troops in an attempt to assess anti-gay sentiment in the military. Eighty percent of respondents said they heard anti-gay remarks during the past year, 37 percent had witnessed or experienced anti-gay harassment and 9 percent reported being either the victims or witnesses to anti-gay physical assaults.
Nope, no policy change needed.
