{"id":28292,"date":"2023-09-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=28292"},"modified":"2023-09-22T06:41:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T06:41:49","slug":"dod-highlights-dont-ask-dont-tell-resources-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=28292","title":{"rendered":"DOD highlights &#8216;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8217; resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p><strong class=\"article-detail-dateline\">ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) &#8212; \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\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, effective Feb. 28, 1994 to Sept. 20, 2011, the Defense Department is providing <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/Spotlights\/Dont-Ask-Dont-Tell-Resources\/\">resources that will feature useful information<\/a><\/strong> including:<\/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>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 were discharged.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-split ntext breakout \">\n<div class=\"item\">\n<div class=\"body\">\n<section class=\"ast-brandedhr\">\n<div class=\"ast-brandedhr-line\">\n<p>                <title>U.S. Air Force Logo<\/title><\/p><\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) &#8212; \u00a0 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, effective Feb. 28, 1994 to Sept. 20, 2011, the Defense Department is providing resources that will feature useful information including: Military service statistics on review board discharge applications approved or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28292","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\/28292","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28295,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28292\/revisions\/28295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}