Report: 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Cost $363M

ABC NEWS ^ | 2-13-2006 | LIZ SIDOTI

[ClearCase_guy]

Congress approved the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy in 1993 during the Clinton administration.

How the heck did that slip in? Somebody might be about to lose their job.

[Sister_T]

I wonder how much it cost when the original ban on homosexuals in the military cost? Was it more or less? If less, I doubt we will hear about it. This report seems to suggest that kicking them out under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" cost so much so we should just allow them to practice their perversion openly, I guess.

[advance_copy]

Worth every penney... A brokeback military would not be as effective.

[Steely Tom]

Gee. Finally the MSM does a story about something besides the discrepency between the 1965 projections of the costs of Medicare and the actual costs of that program.

[kentj]

That's if you place any value on these fruities - the real cost is how many don't join over concerns about these fairies being in the military.

I agree the policy should be withdrawn and the flower sniffing daisy picking GI Joe's and Jane's need to get back in the closet where they belong - we do need laws that protect the sheep from those candy ass sheep humping hollywood herders however.

[SoFloFreeper]

Discharging troops under the Pentagon's policy on gays cost $363.8 million over 10 years, almost double what the government concluded a year ago, a private report says.

Sooo a private report conflicts with the government report, eh? Well, whichever report makes Bush look the WORST, that is the one the press will believe and hype.

[L98Fiero]

"estimates the Pentagon has discharged more than 10,000 service members for homosexuality since "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" went into effect in 1994"

And we were discharging them prior to that date for the very same reasons. I know because I handled several of these discharges durin my time in the Navy.

Discharging homosexuals may cost the military money but "Don't ask, don't tell" hasn't jack to do with it. Prior to "DADT" they just lied to get in. Cost of DADT? Probably close to $0.

[captain_dave]

Totally meaningless without an explanation of how the number was derived; and totally meaningless without a comparison to some alternative (which does not exist). So, we are reduced to the one true important question here: how much did this "cost estimate" cost?

[stocksthatgoup]

Brokeback Military Alert!

[stuartcr]

How does discharging a gay person, cost any different, than discharging anyone else?

[ansel12]

"Worth every penney... A brokeback military would not be as effective."

Larger fines in sentencing may help defray the cost, also suing any poofster organizations that have promoted enlisting, while concealing homoness.

[VRWCmember]

How does discharging a gay person, cost any different, than discharging anyone else?

Because if you don't give them flowers and a manicure coupon they'll scratch your eyes out.

[SalukiLawyer]

This makes little sense to me. Before Don't Ask Don't Tell my illustrious Navy JAG career consisted largely of homosexual discharge boards. (Including the great Manama Lesbian Mutiny in 1991). I can't believe there are more now than there were then. Mind you, I thought it was mostly silly then, and I think it is mostly silly now.

[L98Fiero]

"Brokeback Military Alert!"

You'd be surprized how many effiminate acting guys get pressured into the military by their parents, trying to make a "man" out of their little daisy. Lots of times they get weeded out in boot camp (my company lost 2) by admitting to being gay in order to get back home. Other times they break the news before a big deployment or whatever.

They would get discharged so I don't see where DADT changed anything.

[advance_copy]

...suing any poofster organizations that have promoted enlisting, while concealing homoness

Outstanding and excellent use of language. Brilliant!

[Nextrush]

Isn't this a Pink Ribbon panel. How was this funded?. Hopefully not California taxpayers. No wonder they're in the can financially. But maybe the University of California got a grant from the "Brokeback Family Foundation."

[Jacquerie]

Please elaborate on the great Manama Lesbian Mutiny. Stampeding bull dykes?

[avg_freeper]

"The report, to be released Tuesday by a University of California Blue Ribbon Commission"

And I bet they look just absolutely SUPER SPECIAL in their blue ribbons.

[Jacquerie]

Left unsaid is the unrealized savings of not treating their much higher rate of sexually transmitted diseases, HIV.