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More than 800 service members ejected from US military under ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ receive honorable discharges | CNN Politics (edition.cnn.com)
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More than 800 records of service members who were kicked out of the military under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy were recently upgraded to receive honorable discharges, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday.

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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 25 points 2 months ago

this headline was 100% readable for someone old enough to have lived through this nonsense. seems trivial to lookup the policy if young ones are unfamiliar

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

A: "Dont ask dont tell" is a completely made up bullshit phrase specific to the US that makes no sense outside of context

B: Without knowing about A its impossible to know whether them getting a "honorable discharge" is an improvement or not.

[-] QuincyPeck@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Reading the entire story and not just the headline helps.

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

You must be new here!

[-] QuincyPeck@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Haha! You’d think I’d know by now.

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Nah. I’m plenty old enough and it’s a shit headline, probably purposeful ragebait.

More than 800 service members ejected from US military under ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’

WTF how is that possible, is that still in effect in some way??

receive honorable discharges

… oh. Whew.

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