{"id":28101,"date":"2023-09-20T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=28101"},"modified":"2023-09-21T06:41:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T06:41:41","slug":"dod-highlights-dont-ask-dont-tell-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=28101","title":{"rendered":"DOD Highlights Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>In an effort to reach out to veterans who may have been impacted by the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; policy that was effective, Feb. 28, 1994 to Sept. 20, 2011, the Defense Department is providing resources that will feature useful information. This includes the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Military service statistics on review board discharge applications approved or denied.<\/li>\n<li>Statistics on types of discharges, including honorable and general under honorable conditions.<\/li>\n<li>The appeal process for upgrading discharge type.<\/li>\n<li>Frequently asked questions for veterans seeking a discharge upgrade.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--popup--><\/p>\n<p>DOD Instruction 1304.26, widely known as the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; policy, prohibited military personnel from discriminating against or harassing non-heterosexual service members who did not reveal their sexual orientation, while barring openly LGBTQ+ persons from military service.<\/p>\n<p>The instruction specified that LGBTQ+ persons who did not disclose their sexual orientation could continue serving in the armed forces. Generally, those who chose to disclose would have been discharged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to reach out to veterans who may have been impacted by the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; policy that was effective, Feb. 28, 1994 to Sept. 20, 2011, the Defense Department is providing resources that will feature useful information. This includes the following: Military service statistics on review board discharge applications approved or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28103,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28101\/revisions\/28103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}