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Fifteen years after it was enacted, tomorrow the House Military Personnel Subcommittee will meet to discuss repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Among those scheduled to testify are U.S. Army Major General Vance Coleman (Ret.), U.S. Navy Captain Joan E. Darrah (Ret.), and former Marine Staff Sgt. Eric F. Alva. “This hearing begins a conversation about the national security impact of …

The British government has told gay soldiers that they can expense their participation in gay pride parades, much to the dismay of straight soldiers. Gay troops have been told they can submit claims for their car mileage or train tickets to marches in London on Saturday and in Brighton next month. Heterosexual soldiers have criticised the move saying they are …

Even though only 15-20% of military personnel are female, they comprise almost half of the ejections under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” The Army and Air Force discharged a disproportionate number of women in 2007 under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that prohibits openly gay people from serving in the military, according to Pentagon statistics gathered by an advocacy group. …

The Federal Court of Appeals has issued a setback to the fight to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that the military did not violate the constitutional rights of 12 gay and lesbian servicemembers when it discharged them. The First Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Boston, had been told that …

An encouraging first: A US federal court of appeal has reinstated a lawsuit by a decorated Air Force nurse who is suing after she was discharged for being a lesbian. Major Margaret Witt’s case is the first time a court has not automatically backed the US military’s argument that gays hurt morale and operations as a good enough reason for …

Last night’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy featured a subplot that saw two handsome active duty military men engaging in a steamy and prolonged hospital bed kiss as the unloved Dr. Grey looked on with tearful envy. The ill soldier was awaiting brain tumor surgery and his boyfriend, who was about to be deployed overseas, had offered to go AWOL to …

As if things didn’t suck enough for our guys overseas: GRAFENWOHR, Germany — Legislation that would restrict the sale of certain men’s magazines on U.S. military bases around the world would be bad for morale, according to soldiers at Grafenwohr. U.S. Rep. Paul Broun, R-GA [right], has introduced legislation that would close a loophole in the current law that allows …

Calling it “counterproductive to military readiness”, yesterday Ronald Reagan’s former Assistant Secretary of Defense Lawrence J. Korb pleaded for an end to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” before a joint meeting of the House Armed Services Air and Land Forces Subcommittee and the House Armed Services Readiness Subcommittee. “First, repeal the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy,” Korb told the joint hearing. …

The Pentagon is having problems dealing with the travel rules for the partners of gay members of Congress. Prior to the Easter recess, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was forced to intervene with Defense Secretary Robert Gates in order to get Democratic Rep. Tammy Baldwin’s domestic partner on a military flight for a congressional fact-finding trip to Europe. The speaker succeeded, …

Russian president Vladimir Putin: “It is already clear that a new phase in the arms race is unfolding in the world. It is not our fault, because we did not start it.” Putin is alarmed by U.S. plans to include Poland and the Czech Republic in a new missile defense shield. Putin: “In effect, we are forced to retaliate, to …

I knew it. And you knew it. And now even the Pentagon has to admit that the speedboat incident is fishy. The list of those who are less than fully confident in the Pentagon’s video/audio mashup of aggressive maneuvers by Iranian boats near American warships in the Strait of Hormuz now includes the Pentagon itself. Unnamed Pentagon officials said on …

“The military is no place for such radical San Francisco-style social experimentation, especially during a time of war. It’s been the Department of Defense’s long-standing position that to allow open homosexual behavior and other immoral conduct harms unit cohesion and troop morale. I know this to be true from personal experience. I served 12 years in the military. During basic …

Right-wing talk shows and forums are lighting up with accusations the Brigadier General Keith Kerr is not a “real” general because that rank was attained with the California State Military Reserve, not the federal armed forces. Kerr, the openly gay retired soldier whose question during the Republican YouTube debate launched accusations that he’d been planted by the Clinton campaign (with …

“Mark Twain wrote in one of his journals that, ‘In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.’ Gays and lesbians who serve under the Ban are those patriots. The personal cost can be …

At Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Pfc. Johnny Lamar Dalton, 25, has been sentenced to 40 months in military prison for having unprotected sex with an 18 year-old male he met online. Dalton had tested positive last year and was ordered by his superiors not to have unprotected sex. After the teenager tested positive, his mother notified the military. Dalton was …

This has got to be the craziest shit I’ve heard in ages: WASHINGTON (CNN) — Six nuclear warheads on cruise missiles were mistakenly carried on a flight from North Dakota to Louisiana last week, prompting a major investigation, military officials have confirmed. “This is a major gaffe, and it’s going to cause some heads to roll down the line,” said …

A 25-year old Army private in North Carolina has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon and committing a crime against nature for having unprotected sex with an 18-year old male civilian. Fort Bragg officers warned Pfc. Johnny Dalton to not have unprotected sex after he tested positive for HIV last November. They were alerted by the civilian’s mother …

Well, that didn’t take long. Gay porn house Dark Alley has announced plans to produce a porn take on the Pentagon’s recent “gay bomb” research. Gay Bomb will take us into the future and the year 2012. George the Second has refused to step down as leader of the “free world,” and the nations of Europe have banded together to …

I wasn’t going to going to mention this story, as it’s rather old news, but more information is coming to light about the Pentagon’s so-called “gay bomb” via Berkeley’s Sunshine Project, an activist group dedicated to uncovering the military’s bio-weapons research.

“As the friends I once served with head off to 15-month deployments, I regret I’m not there to lessen their burden and to serve my country. I’m trained to fight, I speak Arabic and I’m willing to serve. No recruiter needs to make a persuasive argument to sign me up. I’m ready, and I’m waiting.” – Arabic translator Stephen Benjamin, …