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SLDN’s Sarvis on NPR: DADT’s Days Numbered?
Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy's Days Numbered?
by David Welna
Listen to SLDN's Aubrey Sarvis discuss prospects for repeal on NPR's Morning Edition.
February 3, 2010
Seventeen years after its passage in Congress, the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy's days may be numbered. Last week President Obama told Congress he wants to work with lawmakers and the military this year to end that policy, which has led to the expulsion from the armed forces of more than thirteen-thousand gay and lesbian servicemembers. Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced plans Tuesday for a yearlong study of how a repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell might affect the military. And a key Senate panel had its first hearing on such a repeal.
