Bydlostan wrote:greed and death wrote:Bydlostan wrote:
In practice, this rarely happened as it was generally up to thee local commander to enforce it. Too many soldiers decided they'd rather be gay then get deployed and cheat the system only to get deployed. serve their contracts and then, maybe get a general discharge.
I do think discharge is too harsh and bad policy, a better policy is that soldiers should just be discouraged or reprimanded if they don't keep tight-lipped about their sex life, just as they are about sexual harassment or racist views. It doesn't help you in any workplace.
DADT discharge was a medical and honorable.
I think it was still a bar to re-enlistment, though.
Yeah that's a bar. You can have a bar with any discharge, or even while your still serving.
For instance getting HIV is a bar to reenlist though they do not discharge you for it.