Stepping out smartly
How the United States Marine Corps is handling the death of DADT. A wee timeline.
December 22, 2010 - President Barack Obama signs the DADT Repeal Act of 2010 into law.
January 31, 2011 [via ABC News]:
The top two leaders of the U.S. Marine Corps say Marines will “step out smartly” to implement a repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy towards gays in the military, now that the law has been changed, despite previous publicly expressed opposition to ending the military’s ban on openly gay troops.
September 20, 2011[via NYT]:
[Master Sgt. Anthony Henry], who had been invited to set up a recruiting booth on the first day of the end of “don’t ask, don’t tell” at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center in downtown Tulsa, instead spent it in quiet conversation with a trickle of gay women who came in to ask about joining the Marines.
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The Marines were the service most opposed to ending the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, but they were the only one of five invited branches of the military to turn up with their recruiting table and chin-up bar at the center Tuesday morning. Although Marines pride themselves on being the most testosterone-fueled of the services, they also ferociously promote their view of themselves as the best. With the law now changed, the Marines appear determined to prove that they will be better than the Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard in recruiting gay, lesbian and bisexual service members.
File under: Fairly fucking awesome.
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