You may have to embiggen the images to read the results. The red bars indicate responses which predict no impact should DADT be repealed.
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Complete DADT Survey Results
I’ve uploaded the complete Department of Defense document to my Scribd account. Bloggers, feel free to grab the embed code. It’s quite a long piece, more than 160 pages, plus the appendices.
Read More »DADT Study Results Are Out
The Washington Post has leaked the results of the hotly-awaited DADT survey, which is not due to be officially released until later this afternoon. According to a survey sent to 400,000 service members, 69 percent of those responding reported that they had served with someone in their unit who they believed to be gay or lesbian. Of those who did, …
Read More »No DADT Discharges In Last Month
Yesterday the Pentagon revealed that under the new rules, not one soldier has been discharged under DADT for a full month. Under new rules adopted Oct. 21, Defense Secretary Robert Gates put authority for signing off on dismissals in the hands of the three service secretaries. Before then, any commanding officer at a rank equivalent to a one-star general could …
Read More »DADT Study To Come One Day Early
After weeks of leaks, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says the Pentagon will issue its study on the repeal of DADT one day in advance of its scheduled December 1st release. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has ordered the report to be released on Nov. 30, one day earlier than planned, “to support Congress’s wish to consider repeal before they …
Read More »DADT Study Co-Chair: No Early Release
The Wonk Room reports that the co-chair of the DADT survey today told Sen. Carl Levin that the survey will not be released in advance of its scheduled December 1st debut, despite all the leaks. Mr. Chairman, I think it will take until the first of December. The key factor remaining for us in the review group is to receive …
Read More »Sen. Joe Lieberman Calls On Pentagon To Immediately Release DADT Survey
The Department Of Defense Is EVER So Pissed About The Leaked DADT Survey
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is furious about the leaked DADT survey and has launched an investigation to find its source. In the meantime, today the Pentagon issued a super-annoyed press release. Secretary Gates is very concerned and extremely disappointed that unnamed sources within the Department of Defense have selectively revealed aspects of the draft findings of the Comprehensive Review Working …
Read More »Crybaby Tony Perkins Demands Investigation Into Leaked DADT Survey
“We have criticized this study from the outset because the CRWG was forbidden to explore the central question before the country-not how to implement a repeal of the current law, but whether doing so is in the best interest of the armed forces. The surveys of servicemembers and their spouses which were conducted as part of this process shared the …
Read More »Leaked Pentagon Study Finds Few Issues With Lifting Ban On Openly Gay Soldiers
According to the Washington Post, a Pentagon study group has found that there would be minimal effect on the military should DADT be repealed. The WaPo story confirms a similarly leaked report from last week. More than 70 percent of respondents to a survey sent to active-duty and reserve troops over the summer said the effect of repealing the “don’t …
Read More »Pentagon Spokesman: We’re On Track To Deliver Our DADT Study On December 1st
“This report is very important to us doing this smartly.” Also: “I’m not prepared at this time to tell you what action we may take upon receipt of the report.” UPDATE: The Wonk Room’s Igor Volsky weighs in. Pentagon Spokesperson Geoff Morrell reiterated the importance of the department’s working group review of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell during a briefing yesterday, …
Read More »Pentagon DADT Survey Of Troops To Show Most Don’t Care About Gay Soldiers
WIKILEAKS: American Gov’t Kept Quiet About Murders Of Gays In Iraq
Gay City News reports today that according to a portion of latest documents revealed via Wikileaks, the Pentagon knew about the murders of gay men in Iraq for more than a year before news outlets reported them. Via Duncan Osborne: “The male was shot (___) times in the chest, and a note was discovered on the body stating that the …
Read More »DOD Revises DADT Discharge Procedure
In response to the murky legal waters currently swirling around DADT, the Pentagon has announced it is raising the rank of persons able to make the call to eject a gay or lesbian servicemember. Chris Geidner reports at Metro Weekly: Discharges under the military’s ”Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy will now take the approval of the service branch secretary, and …
Read More »DOD To Announce New DADT Rules
Today the Pentagon is expected to issue another set of DADT guidelines in the wake of yesterday’s stay of Judge Virginia Phillips’ injunction. Defense Department spokesman Col. Dave Lapan said Thursday that he expects the guidelines be announced later in the day. An injunction last week barring the military from following the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law prompted the Pentagon …
Read More »Military Recruiters Told To Accept Gays
The Pentagon today told armed services recruiters to begin accepting openly gay men and women into the military. Spokeswoman Cynthia Smith said Tuesday that top-level guidance has been issued to recruiting commands informing them that the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” rule has been suspended for now. Recruiters also have been told to inform potential recruits that the moratorium could …
Read More »Pentagon Suspends Discharges During Appeal Of DADT Overturn
The Pentagon has made it official. There will be no more DADT-related discharges until the DOJ’s appeal of its overturn is resolved. This move was leaked earlier today on the Rachel Maddow Show blog. The below message has been posted to the DOD’s defense.gov website. Pending an appeal, the military services have halted discharges under the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” …
Read More »PENTAGON: We Were Only Talking About Adding Shower Curtains
The Pentagon is furiously denying yesterday’s allegation by AmericaBlog’s John Aravosis that they are considering building separate living quarters for gay troops if DADT were to be repealed. According to Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morell, they were only talking about adding showing curtains. Morrell told Hotsheet that the suggestion the survey could lead to segregation is “absurd.” “No one is talking …
Read More »PENTAGON: We Are Considering Separate Baracks For Gay Troops
Via John Aravosis at AmericaBlog: The Pentagon confirmed on Friday that it is considering segregating gay troops, specifically with regards to creating separate showers and/or barracks for straight and gay troops. Advocate reporter Kerry Eleveld just transcribed the following quote from Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell at Friday’s briefing about the new “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” survey: “We think it would …
Read More »Defense Secretary Robert Gates Tells Troops Not To Worry About DADT Repeal
In a videotaped Memorial Day message to the nation’s soldiers, Defense Secretary Robert Gates urges his audience not to to “become distracted” over the possible repeal of DADT. Gates then asks that active duty soldiers participate in the repeal study so that “changes can be done right.”
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