Advocacy group: Navy stops discharge of sailor in sleepover

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http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/04/08/sailor.sleepover/index.html

The Navy has halted discharge proceedings against a sailor who was found asleep in the same bed with another male sailor, according to a announcement Friday by Servicemembers United, the nation's largest organization of gay and lesbian troops and veterans.

Petty Officer Stephen Jones, who is stationed at the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command in Charleston, South Carolina, has said that the Navy's effort to discharge him for "unprofessional conduct" was a trumped-up charge based on the command's suspicion that he might be gay.

Jones also said the nonjudicial punishment for unprofessional conduct was a maneuver around the "don't ask, don't tell" repeal that President Obama signed into law in December.

When contacted by CNN, Navy officials didn't have an immediate comment.