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This 3-page paper provides an argument that the 1993 Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue Act regarding gays in the military has not had a detrimental effect on recruitment, retention and readiness. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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on a sword and did battle for his country. In the past twenty years, it has created a great deal of emotion, with those against gays (and lesbians) in the
military claiming theyre a distraction. The supporters, in the meantime, believe that a persons sexual orientation has nothing to do with how he or she conducts him/herself in the military.
The conflict came to a head a year after President Bill Clinton entered office. Going back on his promise to promote a
more honest standard in the military, he instead initiated a "dont ask, dont tell" policy - in other words, recruiters dont ask, and enlistees dont tell.
The question we ask here is, has "dont ask, dont tell" had an impact on recruitment and retention? Has it had an impact on the nations
military readiness? Well try to answer these questions in this paper. Policy Background Homosexuals in the military has been a difficult issue,
especially since psychiatric screening was initiated during World War II (Herek, 2008). Further complicating problems was the Department of Defenses directive in 1981 that "homosexuality is incompatible with military service"
(Herek, 2008). As a result, by 1992, the Government Accounting Office pointed out that close to 17,000 men and women were discharged in the 1980s because of homosexuality (Herek, 2008).
By the time the early 1990s came around, gay and lesbian civil rights groups, as well as grassroots civilian groups, voiced
the opposition to the DOD policies (Herek, 2008). Furthermore, many colleges and universities banned military recruiters and Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) programs from their campuses to protect the policy
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