Women More Likely to be Discharged Over Military's "Don't Ask"

[The Straight Story]

Women More Likely to be Discharged Over Military's "Don't Ask"

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Pentagon statistics obtained by University of California researchers show that women are far more likely than men to be kicked out of the military under the "don't ask, don't tell policy" banning openly gay servicemembers.

Every military branch dismissed a disproportionate number of women in 2008 under the policy banning openly gay servicemembers.

But the discrepancy was particularly marked in the Air Force, where women were a majority of those let go under the policy, even though they made up only 20 percent of personnel.

Across the military, women represented about one-third of the 619 people discharged based on sexual orientation. They account for just 15 percent of servicemembers.

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[xchrom]

1. now that's interesting.

i wonder what starts the 'investigation' for women service people?

very interesting.

[TN al]

2. I don't find this unusal at all...

... I would think that a military career would be more appealing to a homosexual woman than it would be to a homosexual man. If there are more women than men then there are more women to get out than there are men.

[RC]

3. How many women were discharged because they

said they were lesbian to keep from sleeping with some unwanted dick(s) who was hitting one them?

[juno jones]

4. Doesn't surprise me.

The army lost an outstanding officer and exceptional manager when they let one of my former bosses go.

It was sorta mutual tho, she saw some illegal stuff going on while she was in Panama. Lesbians tend to have social conscience as well.