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[–] halfwaythere@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Can you shoot? Can you move? Can you communicate?

Then who the fuck cares who you prefer to be involved with!? Especially when a lot of soldiers/officers seem to like to be with other people's wives/husbands!

[–] protist@mander.xyz 55 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

“Since DADT repeal [in 2010], many veterans who sought to upgrade their less than honorable discharges reported a prolonged and burdensome process, often requiring the use of a lawyer, to seek the respect and benefits they rightfully earned,” the letter stated. “And far too many veterans discharged under DADT had no idea they could seek an upgrade or where to start the process.”

Austin said today that 96% of the service members who were separated under DADT now have an honorable discharge.

“We will continue to strive to do right by every American patriot who has honorably served their country,” he said.

Glad the Biden Admin proactively upgraded their discharge statuses so no more veterans have to fight to change theirs

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Drag hopes they also want to do right by the unpatriotic veterans who honorably served their country and in the process got disillusioned and radicalised.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

Glad the Biden Admin proactively upgraded their discharge statuses so no more veterans have to fight to change theirs

Nooo! Shut up! We have to focus on the horrible genocide in Gaza, while steering hard away from the horrible genocide in Ukraine!!!

--all of .ml

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 58 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Congratulations to all of you!

[–] index@sh.itjust.works -1 points 13 minutes ago (2 children)

Not sure, who you are congratulating and what does love have to do with army related things?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 8 minutes ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

I'll give you a hint about who I'm congratulating then:

800 service members kicked out under [Don't Ask Don't Tell] just got discharges upgraded to honorable

As for what that has to do with love, I'm sorry that you don't understand what they told that they weren't supposed to tell.

Maybe you need to look up what Don't Ask Don't Tell was?

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 2 points 9 minutes ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

You can read about the context of Don't Ask Don't Tell on Wikipedia.

Or the article itself also explains why the other commentator wrote that ;)

[–] FiremanEdsRevenge@lemmy.world 46 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

This should've been done sooner.

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 47 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

All justice should be swifter. I'm still glad some people got acknowledged.

[–] almar_quigley@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago
[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 20 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

They worked hard! They deserve to be appreciated!

[–] index@sh.itjust.works 0 points 15 minutes ago

What did they work hard on?