The policy was intended to prohibit the witch hunts which occurred anyway. It certainly wasn't intended to allow heterosexual women to be forced to have sex against their will, much less remove them from the service under DADT.
Said witch hunts were the exception, not the rule. No system is perfect, form. Just like the simple fact that gays are now allowed openly in the military, harassment of them will still occur on occasion too.
Drop the 'heterosexual women forced to have sex' bit too. Yes, we know sexual harassment occurs in the military - but again, what you are talking about is the extreme exception.
Its precisely true. I provided you the official study on the issue from a few years back.
So only only you can provide "proper context" by continually trying to claim that virtually all the DADT cases were voluntary where the individual wished to leave the service and used it as an excuse to do so?
I didnt say 'virtually all', but I think a significant number of them absolutely did, and in my personal experience in working on such cases, it was a majority.
Form, how many homosexual discharge cases have you worked on in the military? Would you say my professional experience in this field exceeds your own?
You haven't provided any evidence whatsoever that this is true.
Yes, I have. My earlier link referenced it.
You even tried to claim it was true in the specific case I presented which was patently false.
The point with your specific case is that the individual in it had to disclose his sexuality, and that he was having gay sex with men. Under DADT his command had no choice but to discharge him for that as that is precisely how the regulation was written. There was no 'witch hunt' of him, but once that bell is rung, it cannot remain unacted upon.
Furthermore, you still haven't addressed the gaping hole in this "logic". If it were true, there would be no need for DADT in the past, much less trying to resurrect it in the future.
Of course there was a need for it since I never alleged that wrongdoing didnt exist.
"Bottom line", it doesn't matter how "rare" it was. It still ruined the military careers of well over 12,000 servicemen who served their country, many of whom were decorated heroes.
Again, the way DADT ran was that it was upon the individual to self-disclose their sexuality or sex practices in a manner which made it apparent regulatory action needed to be taken. You inference that all 12,000 was some kind of witch hunt meant to ruin careers is grossly false.
The numbers got smaller because various attempts were finally made to rein in the witch hunts.
Right. As with any policy, it took a number of years to ensure that commanders understood how DADT worked, and that they adhered to the regulation as written. Not because the service was somehow more accepting of homosexuals within the ranks, but because of oversight of the DADT program itself got better.
Eventually, only COs could initiate DADT terminations.
Eventually? Form, that was always the case from day 1. Only commanders have the authority to initiate administrative discharge for whatever reason.
And even that policy was eventually changed due to abuses so that it required Pentagon approval to do so.
That change wasnt until months prior to the policy itself being changed. It was during the DoDs survey period, and response back to congress regarding implemention that that occurred.
The DADT witch hunt will be judged quite harshly by history, just as segregation was. There is no place for blatant discrimination and persecution in a free and open democratic society, much less the sexual assault of females which is still largely not prosecuted.
I assure you sexual assault is indeed prosecuted in the military. I work on such cases all the time.
The solution is simple. The military should no longer be allowed to police themselves in criminal matters. Hopefully, this is just one more nail in that eventual coffin.
That is just ridiculous.
