[quote=Russell]Once there is trouble the military is faced with the conundrum, do we let this person known to be causing division and stress in the unit go, or preserve his/her expertise and the potentially hundreds of thousand of dollars the miltary(tax payer) has invested in him or her. If it weren’t for that money and the damage of losing important personnel rapidly,hurting planning, there might well be an attempt at a zero tolerance rule for
the U.S military.
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But what about cases like Maj Mike Almy. He never “told” in the DADT. They went into his personal emails after he’d been assigned to a different base specifically looking for proof he was gay. He’s testified before congress about what happened to him, and he testified in the recent case brought by the Log Cabin Republicans. In this case he was NOT causing division. He was in a different location. The military (or high ranking people in the military) went after him after he’d been transferred. He was eventually booted out because he refused to answer directly whether he was gay. The “don’t ask don’t tell” doesn’t work if the military asks. His record now shows he was booted out because he was gay – even though he never admitted it while in the military.
Google a bit about him – it’s an interesting case.
