Army Specialist On Bush Detail Fired For Coming Out

[Cannikin]

(San Francisco, California) Brian Muller, a U.S. Army bomb squad team leader who served on a security detail for President George Bush, said he was dismissed from duty after deciding to tell his commander he's gay."I didn't do it to get out of a war — I already served in a war," Muller, 25, said in an interview. "After putting my life on the line in the war, the idea that I was fighting for the freedoms of so many other people that I couldn't myself enjoy was almost unbearable."

The exodus of soldiers like Muller continues even as concerns grow about military troop strength, according to a new study. Some 770 people were discharged for homosexuality last year under the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

Hundreds of those discharged held high-level job specialties that required years of training and expertise, including 90 nuclear power engineers, 150 rocket and missile specialists and 49 nuclear, chemical, and biological warfare specialists.

Eighty-eight linguists were discharged, including at least seven Arab language specialists.

http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/06/062104armyGay.htm

[the Kelly Gang]

1. and what about all the gays and lesbians who faught in all the past wars

to keep us all free !! such stupidity

[FloridaPat]

2. Repubs are back in. They just don't want gays serving.

It's a man thing too. Nedver understood it myself.

[Cannikin]

3. kick

[Cannikin]

4. kick