{"id":8977,"date":"2011-01-12T00:25:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T05:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8977"},"modified":"2011-01-10T03:22:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T08:22:56","slug":"dadt-gates-plans-for-repeal-wilson-plans-to-reinstate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/12\/dadt-gates-plans-for-repeal-wilson-plans-to-reinstate\/","title":{"rendered":"DADT: Gates Plans for Repeal, Wilson Plans to Reinstate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has said he hopes policy changes necessary for DADT repeal will be accomplished &#8220;within a matter of a very few weeks&#8221; so &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2011\/01\/military-dont-ask-repeal-preparation-010711w\/\">the real challenge<\/a>&#8221; can begin:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMy hope is that it can be done within a matter of a very few weeks so that we can then move on to what is the real challenge, which is providing training to 2.2 million people,\u201d Gates said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Commanders will provide all troops with some sort of education <!--more-->about the repeal, and Pentagon officials are determining the scope and format of that training, officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, the new Republican Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee personnel committee has said he wants the Service Chiefs to return to Congress to testify.\u00a0 HASC Chairman Howard McKeon has also indicated battlefield commanders might be called to testify on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2011\/01\/military-wilson-reinstate-dont-ask-dont-tell-010611w\/\">morale and readiness<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Armed services committee aides, speaking on condition of anonymity, said hearings will focus on implementation issues, from housing to benefits to changes in criminal laws \u2014 which would have the effect of slowing down the change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has said he hopes policy changes necessary for DADT repeal will be accomplished &#8220;within a matter of a very few weeks&#8221; so &#8220;the real challenge&#8221; can begin: \u201cMy hope is that it can be done within a matter of a very few weeks so that we can then move on to what is the real [&#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":[219,442,1345,1346,2,171,334],"class_list":["post-8977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-dadt","tag-homosexual","tag-howard-mckeon","tag-joe-wilson","tag-military","tag-religious-freedom","tag-robert-gates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977","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=8977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}