Military Wastes $200 Million on Queers

The Right apparently only perks up at discrimination news when it affects their wallets.

FoxNews reports:

Hundreds of highly skilled troops, including many translators, have left the armed forces because of the Pentagon's rules on gays, at a cost of nearly $200 million, the first congressional study on the impact of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy says.

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Of those who left, 757 held critical jobs for which the Pentagon offers re-enlistment bonuses because of their specialized nature, such as data processing technicians and translators.

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"What the research has found and what the GAO confirmed is that 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' harms military readiness," said Aaron Belkin, director of the Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military at the University of California-Santa Barbara. The center released its own similar study last year.

Gays help military readiness, in part, because most have spent their formative years in the Boy Scouts, and are thus taught to always be prepared.

Not that I'm implying Boy Scouts is a homosexual organization. I'm just saying... sashes? Come on.