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Aug. 6th, 2006 07:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icarusThe recruiting ads say there are 'over 200 ways to be a soldier.' Being openly gay is still not one of them.
Three students as part of "Right to Serve" challenge the military's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy:
"They said we were morally and administratively ineligible for the U.S. military," said Jarrett Lucas, 20, of South Philadelphia, a recent Drexel University engineering student.
"They were very courteous, but they said that if we were truly interested in enlisting we'd have to conceal our sexual identities," Lucas added.
Lucas, joined by Shane Bagwell, 18, a high school graduate from Wyndmoor in Montgomery County, and Marissa Cotroneo, 19, an aspiring psychology major from Scranton, spent about an hour talking with Army recruiters and taking a practice qualifying test before leaving part of an Army of none.
The commander of the Army's Philadelphia recruiting station, Sgt. First Class Bell - she refused to give her first name - confirmed the trio's account of the meeting but declined to comment further.
In WWII we relaxed the anti-gay policies and looked the other way because we needed warm bodies to join. I wonder when the U.S. military will get desperate enough, given they're 40% short of their recruitment goals in all branches?
Three students as part of "Right to Serve" challenge the military's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy:
"They said we were morally and administratively ineligible for the U.S. military," said Jarrett Lucas, 20, of South Philadelphia, a recent Drexel University engineering student.
"They were very courteous, but they said that if we were truly interested in enlisting we'd have to conceal our sexual identities," Lucas added.
Lucas, joined by Shane Bagwell, 18, a high school graduate from Wyndmoor in Montgomery County, and Marissa Cotroneo, 19, an aspiring psychology major from Scranton, spent about an hour talking with Army recruiters and taking a practice qualifying test before leaving part of an Army of none.
The commander of the Army's Philadelphia recruiting station, Sgt. First Class Bell - she refused to give her first name - confirmed the trio's account of the meeting but declined to comment further.
In WWII we relaxed the anti-gay policies and looked the other way because we needed warm bodies to join. I wonder when the U.S. military will get desperate enough, given they're 40% short of their recruitment goals in all branches?