Don't ask, don't tell (DADT) was the official United States policy on military service by gays, bisexuals, and lesbians, instituted by the Clinton Administration on February 28, 1994, when Department of Defense Directive 1304.26 issued on December 21, 1993, took effect, lasting until September 20, 2011. The policy ...
Defense officials shelved our report. President Clinton, lacking support from the Pentagon or from the U.S. Congress to end discrimination against gays in the military, adopted the alternative policy that came to be known as “Don't Ask, Don't Tell,” which precluded gay men and women from serving in the U.S. military if they ...
Sep 10, 2015 ... The yearlong study found that all-male squads did better than mixed groups in 69 percent of the tasks evaluated. ... A yearlong Marine Corps study trying to understand how gender integration would affect combat readiness has found that all-male units were faster, more lethal and able to evacuate ...
Jan 29, 2013 ... Prior to the repeal of ''don't ask, don't tell'' (DADT) on September 20, 2011, many ..... for other reasons; those were just the only publicly acceptable reasons they could put forward.''17 One of us observed daily operations of multiple military units and found no major differences between units that included ...
openly gay and lesbian personnel to serve would undermine the military's ability to accomplish its mission and, to a .... policies were enforced with increasing vigilance and many gay and lesbian service members .... which they labeled “Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue” (hereafter referred to as “Don't Ask,. Don't Tell,” or ...
The Pentagon's survey about the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy found that 92 percent of service members "agree that they could serve ... in a unit in combat" without compromising "mission readiness."