Pentagon: No gay soldiers fired this month

[The Straight Story]

Pentagon: No gay soldiers fired this month

There have been no sackings under DADT in the last month

No US troops have been fired for being gay in the last month, the Pentagon has said.

Last month, defence secretary Robert Gates tightened the rules on dismissals, placing the power to sack out gay troops in the hands of just three officials.

Previously, hundreds of officers had the power to fire soldiers whose sexual orientation became known.

Pentagon spokeswoman Cynthia Smith told Associated Press that no discharges had been approved since October 21st. She could not give the total number of discharges for previous months.

Aaron Belkin, an expert on the law and the executive director of the Palm Center at the University of California, said that 428 gay and lesbian troops were honorably discharged under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in 2009.


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