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kskiska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-02-03 11:32 PM
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A Policy Translates to Losses (Gay Translators)
'Don't Tell' Leads to Ouster Of Scarce Arabic Linguists

Wednesday, December 3, 2003; Page A01

Cathleen Glover was cleaning the pool at the Sri Lankan ambassador's residence recently when she heard the sound of Arabic drifting through the trees. Glover earned $11 an hour working for a pool-maintenance company, skimming leaves and testing chlorine levels in the backyards of Washington. No one knew about her past. But sometimes the past found her.

Glover recognized the sound instantly. It was the afternoon call to prayer coming from a mosque on Massachusetts Avenue. She held still, picking out familiar words and translating them in her head.

She learned Arabic at the Defense Language Institute (DLI), the military's premier language school, in Monterey, Calif. Her timing as a soldier was fortuitous: Around her graduation last year, a Government Accounting Office study reported that the Army faced a critical shortage of linguists needed to translate intercepts and interrogate suspects in the war on terrorism.

"I was what the country needed," Glover said.

She was, and she wasn't. Glover is gay. She mastered Arabic but couldn't handle living a double life under the military policy known as "don't ask, don't tell." After two years in the Army, Glover, 26, voluntarily wrote a statement acknowledging her homosexuality.

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lcordero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-02-03 11:38 PM
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1. I hate to say it but...
all the more power to Ms.Glover for being able to get out of the military in one piece.
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