{"id":6901,"date":"2010-08-25T00:30:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T06:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6901"},"modified":"2010-08-22T21:48:40","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T03:48:40","slug":"deckplate-issues-and-the-repeal-of-dadt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/25\/deckplate-issues-and-the-repeal-of-dadt\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Deckplate Issues&#8221; and the Repeal of DADT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Stars and Stripes<\/em> apparently caught up with some servicemembers after they participated in one of the Defense Department&#8217;s working groups.\u00a0 Interestingly, the article says most of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/troops-discuss-deckplate-issues-at-dadt-forum-1.114979\">concern was on &#8220;deckplate issues,&#8221;<\/a> or how their everyday lives would be practically affected by the repeal (examples included berthing and marriage recognition).<\/p>\n<p>Advocacy groups supporting repeal have said these very questions are why these discussion should not be happening.<\/p>\n<p>In a related story, Politico reported the Department of Defense had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0810\/41326.html\">begun mailing surveys<\/a> to military spouses in an attempt to gather information on their response to the implementation of the repeal of DADT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stars and Stripes apparently caught up with some servicemembers after they participated in one of the Defense Department&#8217;s working groups.\u00a0 Interestingly, the article says most of the concern was on &#8220;deckplate issues,&#8221; or how their everyday lives would be practically affected by the repeal (examples included berthing and marriage recognition). Advocacy groups supporting repeal have said these very questions [&#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":[219,2,734],"class_list":["post-6901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-dadt","tag-military","tag-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901","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=6901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}