More lesbians discharged in 2007
WASHINGTON
While women bring into being up 14 percent of Army personnel, 46 percent of those discharged under the policy hold out year were women. And while 20 percent of Air Force personnel are women, 49 percent of its discharges under the policy last year were women.
By simile for 2006, about 35 percent of the Army’s discharges and 36 percent of the Air Force’s were women, according to the statistics.
The information was gathered subordinate to a Freedom of Information Act request by the agency of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, a policy support organization.
The organization compiled gender statistics on the discharges but conducted no formal assign of interviews and thus could offer not at all verifiable reason for the increase in women separated from the military under “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
The Pentagon in recent days released overall verse of discharges under the policy for 2007, without a breakdown by gender.
Overall, the number of gay men and lesbians discharged in 2007 rose to 627 from 612 a year before, according to Pentagon statistics. Those figures portray a drop of about 50 percent from a peak in 2001, before the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
According to the statistics, the Army in 2007 discharged 302 soldiers under the policy, up from 280 the year before. The Air Force dismissed 91 people, down from 102 in 2006.
The Navy discharged 166, the sort as in 2006. The Marine Corps discharged 68, up from 64 in 2006.
Pentagon officials could not explain for what cause the fourth book of the pentateuch; census of the hebrews during the term of women increased last year.
