PalmCenter.org – Press Contact: Nathaniel Frank, Senior Research Fellow, The Palm Center, University of California, Santa Barbara
Amidst Inaction by Politicians, Former Pentagon Brass Call for Repeal
Santa Barbara, CA – A new study released today by a team of retired senior flag and general officers from the U.S. military has concluded that the ban on openly gay service members is counterproductive and should end, the Associated Press is reporting today. The nonpartisan study group has a combined century and a half of military service from all four branches of the military, and it marks the first time a Marine Corps general has ever called publicly for an end to the gay ban. “I believe this should have been done much earlier,” said Brigadier General Hugh Aitken, USMC (Ret.), one of the authors of the report.