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sexuality as one of the conditions that requires
n June 26, Lt. Richard P. Watson
reduction
of full severance pay by one-half. The
announced a multi-level assault to
secretary of the Navy has the discretion to grant
the U.S. Defense Department’s “don’t
full separation pay in extraordinary instances, where
ask, don’t tell” policy regarding gay
denial of such pay would be unjust. In this instance
men and lesbians in the military.
secretary determined that Watson is not en
Watson is being involuntarily discharged the
from
titled to the full amount, despite his 13-plus years
the U.S. Navy because of homosexual conduct. He
of exemplary service as a nuclear submarine of
will file an injunction sometime this month to stop
ficer and the recommendation of his commanding
his forced discharge from the Navy; doing so will
officer
that he receive full pay.
allow him to stay in the military while challenging
Rep. Elizabeth Furse (D-Oregon) was moved
the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
to intervene on Watson’s behalf. She wrote to
Watson has also filed a formal discrimination
Capt. Marty Alford at the Department of the Navy,
complaint against the Reserve Officer Training
requesting that Watson “receive a fair and impar
Corps at Oregon State University, where until June
tial review of his military ser
30 he was the Sophomore
vice record and that his sev
Instructor and Nuclear
erance pay be determined ac
Programs Coordinator
cordingly.” Furse received a
for the Naval ROTC. In
response from C. West, an
that complaint, Watson
assistant with the Navy’s
requests that the provost
Congressional Liaison Of
of OSU halt all ROTC
fice, who wrote: “Only those
operations until the Navy
personnel fully qualified for
stops its discriminatory
retention are offered full sepa
practices. OSU has a
ration pay. Lt. Watson is not
policy forbidding dis
qualified
for retention since
crimination on the basis
he voluntarily revealed his ho
of sexual orientation.
mosexual orientation to his
Last, Watson will ini
C om m anding O fficer....
tiate legal action against
Even though Lt. Watson is a
the Department of De
good officer, this does not
fense to eliminate its dis
q . entitle him to full separation
criminatory policy of re
ducing separation pay
I pay.”
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W atson ’ s attorney, Frank
benefits to members of
| Dixon, believes that the
the armed forces who are
> Navy’s severance pay policy
involuntarily discharged
o is inconsistent with the new
because of their sexual
j “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
orientation.
The severance pay policy was
Watson’s ordeal be- . _. ,
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r\ . u m 1994,
n a
Lt. Richard P. Watson
not reviewed or revised when
gan in October
the Department of Defense
when he provided writ
adopted the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Dixon
ten notification to the professor of Naval Science at
has corresponded with representatives of the Gen
OSU that he is gay, in an effort to stop an extortion
eral Counsel’s Office of the secretary of the Navy,
attempt and to abide by the “Core Values” of the
and they have agreed to review these policies for
U.S. Navy prescribing naval ethics. A formal in
consistency.
quiry ensued to consider Watson’s fitness to serve
Watson is waiting to hear from the OSU pro
based on his truthful statement regarding his ho
vost regarding his complaint about discriminatory
mosexuality. On March 1, 1995, a three-member
Navy practices through its ROTC program on
Board of Inquiry deliberated for 22 minutes and
campus,
and is considering other options should
voted unanimously that Watson be “recommended
that complaint fail to bring the Navy into compli
for separation from the naval service by reason of
ance with the university’s anti-discrimination poli
homosexual conduct.” The board recommended
cies.
an honorable discharge.
Watson would like nothing more than to be
Although Watson is being honorably dis
allowed to continue to serve in the Navy and fulfill
charged, his severance pay has been cut in half
his lifelong goal to someday command a nuclear-
because the basis of his involuntary separation is
powered submarine.
homosexuality. Current Navy policy lists homo-
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A Northwest man is forced into activism by his discharge
from the Navy under the “don’t ask don’t tell”policy
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