{"id":11445,"date":"2011-06-03T01:23:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T06:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=11445"},"modified":"2013-10-09T00:11:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T03:11:53","slug":"airman-discharged-under-dadt-groups-protest-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/03\/airman-discharged-under-dadt-groups-protest-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Airman Discharged Under DADT, Groups Protest, But&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/06\/02\/airman-discharged-under-dont-ask-dont-tell\/\">the US Air Force discharged an &#8220;Airman&#8221;<\/a> under the current law prohibiting homosexuals from serving in the military, most commonly known as &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell.&#8221;\u00a0 The homosexual advocacy group Servicemembers Legal Defense Network was obviously disturbed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Aubrey Sarvis of the advocacy group [SLDN] said the discharge underscores the need for officials to wrap up the repeal process &#8220;and put this ugly chapter in American history behind us.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sarvis apparently failed to at least consider how the Air Force characterized the discharge, emphasis added:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The airman in the case <em>asked to be separated <\/em>expeditiously,&#8221; [Air Force spokesman Lt. Col. Todd] Vician said&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The discharge occurred in April.\u00a0 No further details were released.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth remembering the military <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/01\/dadt-survey-doesn%e2%80%99t-say-what-you-think-it-says%e2%80%a6\/\">previously released statistics on homosexual discharges<\/a>, indicating\u00a025% of all discharges under DADT occurred in the first 120 days of service.\u00a0 The statistic led credence to anecdotes that many discharges under DADT occurred because people had second thoughts about joining the\u00a0military, so they said they were homosexual\u00a0to get out of the military with\u00a0an honorable discharge (anything less can have an impact on even civilian careers).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s impossible to know which percentage this new discharge falls under, except to note the Airman apparently <em>wanted <\/em>an expeditious discharge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reported the US Air Force discharged an &#8220;Airman&#8221; under the current law prohibiting homosexuals from serving in the military, most commonly known as &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell.&#8221;\u00a0 The homosexual advocacy group Servicemembers Legal Defense Network was obviously disturbed: Aubrey Sarvis of the advocacy group [SLDN] said the discharge underscores the need for officials to wrap up the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[134,1820,219,442,2,1821,1822],"class_list":["post-11445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-air-force","tag-aubrey-sarvis","tag-dadt","tag-homosexual","tag-military","tag-sldn","tag-todd-vician"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}