Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
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Open service has a special significance for the U.S. Military’s first post-Don’t Ask Don’t Tell generation – and two out cadets at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs are turning their own past struggles with coming out and current place in military history into a charge to move the banner forward.
They’re co-presidents of the AFA’s first officially-recognized extracurricular LGBT club – Spectrum – which was sanctioned in May 2012 and seeks to forge an infrastructure of support for gay, lesbian, bi and questioning cadets and their allies.
This month marks the one-year anniversary of the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. DAD was first signed into law by President Clinton in 1993. The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network estimated that over the period of 18 years, 14,500 military personnel were discharged because of their sexual orientation. The SLDN also reported the Pentagon spent more than $363 million dollars implementing DADT.
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