The Pentagon began a new effort Wednesday to contact former service members who may have been forced out of the military and deprived of years of benefits due to policies targeting their sexual…
The Department of Defense announced additional resources on Wednesday designed to help retired LGBT veterans who left the military with a less than honorable discharge due to their sexual orientation under the department's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The Pentagon is launching a new outreach campaign to help LGBTQ service members who feel they “suffered an error or injustice” before the repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy to correct their military records.
The Pentagon will ramp up efforts to identify service members discharged because of their sexual orientation during the “don’t ask/don’t tell” era, with the goal of helping them correct their military records, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Wednesday.
The Pentagon plans to make it easier for LGBTQ+ veterans to retroactively obtain honorable discharges they may have been denied because of their sexuality.
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