Report on soldier with Arabic translation skills who was booted under DADT

Ian Finkenbinder translated high security information -- weapons cache locations, insurgent HQ locations -- but that was all meaningless when it was discovered that he is gay.The Army flushed all that training and experience down the commode.



Summary of the CNN report: during the last 10 years, over 11,000 outed gays have been discharged from the military. Nathaniel Frank of U.C. Santa Barbara conducted a study of gays removed from the military. Frank discovered that over 800 of the discharged gays were "mission critical specialists" and about 300 were linguists. Of which, 55 were rare Arabic linguists. Franks concludes that the policy towards gays is causing a "brain drain" in the military.

Hat tip, Paul.