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10-18-11
Advocate: A Benefits Battle Looms
By Andrew Harmon, Advocate Magazine
As the saying goes, the military recruits soldiers, but it retains families.
And, it goes without saying, gay service members have families of their own.
How they will be treated in the incipient post-“don’t ask, don’t tell” era is an open question, though the current answer is, quite simply, unequally. The subject was a pressing one for many attendees at the recent inaugural OutServe Armed Forces Leadership Summit, organized by a group that started as a small underground network of gay active duty service members and now reports 4,500 members in 45 chapters worldwide, including two in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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