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The remarks came in response to the
announcement June 1 that 1,231 servicemem
bers were discharged under “don’t ask, don’t tell"
.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled during fiscal year 2000—the highest number
May 25 that former Lake Oswego resident since 1987. This means the Pentagon is firing
John Hensala must reimburse the Air Force for three to four people a day for being lesbian, gay
more than $71,000 in medical school scholarships.
or bisexual.
The psychiatrist was discharged involuntari
Elizabeth Kier, a University of Washington
ly in 1994 for stating he is gay under the “don’t
political science professor, said this practice will
ask, don’t tell” policy. This is the first time a exacerbate the growing divisions between mili
court has ruled on the administration of the mil tary and civilian life and contribute to recruiting
itary’s recoupment policy for homosexuals.
shortfalls. “The persistence of an anti-gay
The Pentagon’s “Deutch memorandum" bias...has the potential to erode the American
provides that recoupment is not warranted
public’s confidence in the military."
when servicemembers are discharged involun
According to Alan Dowd, former associate
tarily for stating they are gay, lesbian or bisexu editor of American Legion, high schools denied
al unless evidence indicates the statement was military recruiters access to their campuses on
made solely for the purpose of seeking separa
19,228 separate occasions in 1999. A profession
tion. Although the court found Hensala had al staff member of the House Armed Services
made repeated statements that he wished to Committee called this “the single biggest obsta
serve, Alsup ruled that the Air Force could sub cle to carrying out their recruiting mission.”
stitute its opinion about his sincerity.
Meanwhile, the United Kingdom, which
“The court has misunder
lifted its gay ban in January
stood the basic precept of
2000, is finding that the more
recoupment policy, and by
inclusive policy has helped
doing so it has helped the Air
recruitment by making the
Force pour salt into the wound
services seem more enlight
of rejection,” said C. Dixon
ened. In Italy, a retired
Osburn, Servicemembers Legal
brigadier general said June 6
Defense Network executive
that sexual minorities could
director. “The salt is the finan
be the answer to the country’s
cial penalty; the wound is hav
declining ranks.
ing been fired from one’s cho
“The lack of professionals
sen career.”
could easily be resolved by
Osburn said the recoup
recruiting immigrants and gays,”
ment policy is not supposed to
Luigi Caligaris told Milan’s Cor-
apply to servicemembers who
riere Della Sera newspaper. “We
NEAREST »ECffUîTING S’ATIO*
come out of the closet. One of
should recmit gays as long as
the few exceptions is when
they promise to conduct them
fraud clearly has been commit
selves properly in the barracks.”
ted in order to obtain a scholarship with no
This year, the Air Force is short by about
intent to fulfill a service obligation, he added.
1,200 pilots, the Navy is short by about 12,000
“The Army and Navy have understood and sailors, and the Army has lowered traditional
applied this policy correctly,” Osburn said. “The standards of admission to attract high school
Air Force has consistently been the outlier. It is dropouts. Yet “commanders continue to fire
deeply disappointing that the court would miss capable and experienced soldiers simply because
the mark so thoroughly and, in doing so, revic they are gay,” said Aaron Belkin, director of the
timize the plaintiff.”
Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the
According to The Associated Press, attorney Military at the University of California in Santa
Clyde Wadsworth said he and Hensala were
Barbara.
“deeply disappointed” with Alsup’s ruling and
Total Army discharges of 573 represent a
planned to appeal.
dramatic increase over the 271 men and women
discharged in 1999. According to Servicemem
bers Legal Defense Network, more than 200 of
the discharges were from Fort Campbell, Ky.,
ecruiting hortfalls
where Pfc. Barry Winchell was killed by fellow
een as elf nflicted
soldiers because of his perceived sexual orienta
ust one week after the Portland Public
tion in 1999.
Schools board heard arguments about the
“We believe these numbers reflect the anti-
need for more recruiters, military experts said gay legacy of Fort Campbells former command
the Pentagon’s problems might be of its own
ing general, Robert Clark,” executive director
making.
C. Dixon Osburn said. “The environment per-
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