{"id":18328,"date":"2012-07-09T00:45:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T03:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=18328"},"modified":"2013-10-30T20:06:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T23:06:30","slug":"dod-dadt-repeal-had-no-positive-effect-on-readiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/09\/dod-dadt-repeal-had-no-positive-effect-on-readiness\/","title":{"rendered":"DOD: DADT Repeal had No Positive Effect on Readiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the &#8220;compelling&#8221; reasons for repealing the ban on homosexuals openly serving in the US military was the claim that &#8216;thousands&#8217; of people were being discharged from critically undermanned career fields necessary to the war effort.\u00a0 (Arab linguists were the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/aaron-belkin\/three-more-gay-arabic-lin_b_49245.html\">most common scare-statistic<\/a> used.)<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a year after repeal, the DOD has said <!--more-->there has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=116825\">no positive impact<\/a> to readiness.\u00a0 In other words, letting homosexuals serve improved<em> nothing<\/em> with regard to the institutional military mission:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senior military leaders say the change has had no impact on readiness and little to no effect on most of the 1.2 million members on active duty&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So much for doing it for the good of the mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the &#8220;compelling&#8221; reasons for repealing the ban on homosexuals openly serving in the US military was the claim that &#8216;thousands&#8217; of people were being discharged from critically undermanned career fields necessary to the war effort.\u00a0 (Arab linguists were the most common scare-statistic used.) Nearly a year after repeal, the DOD has said<\/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":[2459,219,442,3362,2],"class_list":["post-18328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-arabic","tag-dadt","tag-homosexual","tag-linguist","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18328","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=18328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}