The number of military personnel discharged for homosexual conduct or for stating their homosexuality rose by 17 percent last year to the highest total in recent years, the Pentagon (news - web sites) said Friday. The Army's total more than doubled, while the Air Force had a 50 percent decline.
You know, you'd think at a point in time when the military is so far below its targets that it's pulling in people who haven't graduated from high school, they'd decide that this policy is perhaps just a pit counterproductive. Then again, nobody ever accused the military of common sense.
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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