Replacing gay troops cost military $200 million

[justin899]

WASHINGTON -- The military has spent more than $200 million to recruit and train personnel to replace troops discharged for being openly gay in the last decade, a new congressional study has found.

The review by the Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress, was requested by more than 20 lawmakers who were concerned about the costs of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy instituted in the Clinton administration, particularly for service members with "critical occupations" and "important foreign language skills."

The accountability office plans to release its review on Friday. The New York Times obtained it from a member of Congress who had requested the study.

In the last 10 years, more than 10,000 service members have been discharged because they did not keep their sexual orientation to themselves as required, according to the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, a gay rights group that monitors the armed forces.

http://www.indystar.com/articles/7/224648-5667-010.html

Bigotry isn't free afterall.

[purduejake]

1. It'll be much higher than that...

just wait until we are hit again and decipher Arabic chatter days later since they booted a bunch of queer translators. The cost will be astounding.

[TomClash]

2. And what is the quality of the personnel

we have replacing these people?

What's the difference? The Marines think everyone in the Navy is gay anyway.

[xchrom]

3. The Marines think everyone in the Navy is gay anyway.

they aren't?
;)

[tjwmason]

4. I thought it was just the Royal Navy

;-)