10 years after ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ cadets see progress

She kept quiet about her sexuality for her freshman year, fearing expulsion and the ruin of her not-yet-begun career. She started testing the waters her second year.

Normoyle, 32, of Mount Laurel, New Jersey, and fellow cadet Chip Hall led the formation of the Coast Guard Academy’s Spectrum Diversity Council, the first advocacy group for LGBTQ students at a U.S. military academy, a few months after “don’t ask, don’t tell” ended on Sept. 20, 2011. Similar groups later formed at the other four service academies.

At the Air Force Academy in Colorado, second-year cadet Marissa Howard, who came out as a lesbian a few years ago, said she admires LGBTQ service members who struggled under the former policy. For many cadets, it is difficult to imagine what it was like because their generation has been more accepting, said K.C. Commins, a bisexual Coast Guard Academy senior from Altoona, Iowa, and current Spectrum Diversity Council president.

proud to live in a country where anybody can commit war crimes and take part in illegal occupations even if they bang the same sex progressive

Today is not Bastille Day.

I'm unclear about how/why this is an issue. What law requires ppl to 'tell'?

Governments, military, coast guard etc learned nothing from Alan Turing’s experience!

At the end of the day we shoot the same bullets and bleed the same colors.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Agree,Good Decision

No, we DE-volved. Just because it has changed, it doesn’t mean for the better. No shortage of evidence for those that actually look.

I think already answered this one. No one left behind. Well until Biden disaster

So we have made progress however more is needed. This basically applies to everything, it’s called evolving

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