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  2. Pentagon to consider honorable discharges for gay veterans ...

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    The U.S. Department of Defense will consider granting honorable discharges to more than 30,000 gay and bisexual veterans who were barred from serving in the military because of their sexual ...

  3. Pentagon agrees to settle with LGBTQ+ vets over 'don't ask ...

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    Most of the 13,000 service members the Pentagon says were separated from the military under don't ask, don't tell received honorable discharges, but about 2,000 received dishonorable discharges.

  4. Hundreds given honorable discharges after Pentagon 'don't ask ...

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    Over 800 records of service members who were separated from the U.S. military for their sexual orientation under the now-repealed "don't ask, don't tell" policy have been given honorable ...

  5. Military discharge - Wikipedia

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    According to the Department of Defense, of 207,000 service members that were discharged in 2014, more than 18,000 (9%) were issued less-than-honorable paperwork, with 4143 veterans (2.0%) receiving other-than-honorable discharges, 637 (0.31%) receiving bad conduct discharges, and 157 (0.08%) receiving dishonorable discharges. Between 2000 and ...

  6. Sexual orientation in the United States military - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. military discharged soldiers for homosexual acts throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth century even in the absence of any explicit prohibition of sodomy.The Articles of War of the United States of 1916, implemented on March 1, 1917, included Article 93 stating that any person subject to military law who committed "assault with intent to commit sodomy" shall be punished as a court ...

  7. Don't ask, don't tell - Wikipedia

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    "Don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) was the official United States policy on military service of non-heterosexual people.Instituted during the Clinton administration, the policy was issued under Department of Defense Directive 1304.26 on December 21, 1993, and was in effect from February 28, 1994, until September 20, 2011. [1]

  8. Senate resolution apologizes to ‘hundreds of thousands’ of ...

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    A group of LGBTQ veterans who were given dishonorable discharges under the policy because of their sexual orientation sued the Department of Defense last summer, arguing that their civil rights ...

  9. Section 8 (military) - Wikipedia

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    Section 8 was a category of military discharge employed by the United States Armed Forces which was used for servicemembers judged mentally unfit for service. This type of discharge was also often given to cross-dressers, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender personnel in the U.S. military.