Report implies that military personnel Don't care if Don't Ask Don't Tell policy is repealed

The potential Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy being repealed doesn’t really matter much to military personnel, based on a recent research by the Pentagon. Partial findings of the report indicated that a majority of active duty military employees thought repealing DADT would have no effect. The repeal of the policy does face some opposition. However, the majority of Americans seem to be in favor of doing away with the policy.

Not even caring for those within the military

A research begun by the Pentagon several months ago, at the behest of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, has revealed that most service personnel don’t think about the controversial “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy, according to ABC. It seems like the govt has been fairly bad about leaked documents recently. Of course, it made Gates upset to find out that his research results were released by the Washington Post. The leaked portion of the research included the finding that 70 percent of respondents didn’t believe that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell repeal would really have any impact on anything within the military. There were 150,00 spouses of military personnel and 400,000 military members that got the survey. Of those, less than 30 percent responded.

America mostly supports the DADT repeal

Polls and surveys from the last few years have been indicating that more Americans are for the repeal of the DADT policy. CNN accounts that a Pew Research poll said 58 percent of Americans wanted the DADT policy repealed while a CNN poll showed that 70 percent of Americans wanted DADT repealed. Those who responded to the survey are all that are truly analyzed by polls and statistics. This might be inaccurate for how the country as a whole feels on the subject. It seems like individuals don't want the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy anymore. They want it to be appealed.

Settling soon

This issue will likely be resolved within the next legislative session. Debate raged over “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” and allowing homosexuals to serve for years. Being homosexual would make it impossible to be within the military. Discharge would happen. The military was also segregated until an executive order from President Truman ended racial discrimination in the military.

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ABC News

abcnews.go.com/Politics/pentagon-release-review/story?id=12270535&page=1

CNN

cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/11/30/military.gay.policy/index.html?hpt=T1