A Pentagon study has revealed that military personnel are indifferent to whether the DADT policy is repealed. Little to no impact whatsoever is predicted by military personnel, should the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy be repealed. Most polls have indicated most Americans are for repealing the policy.

Those in the service Don’t seem to care

The “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy is one that personal in the military don’t even care about. This was shown in a research done by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Gates was quite mad that the Washington Post leaked the study outcomes which was not too much of a surprise since leaked documents have come from the government a lot recently. The DADT repeal would not change anything within the military. This is what 70 percent of the respondents believed. About 400,000 service members got the survey. There were 150,000 spouses of military employees who got it too. Of those, less than 30 percent responded.

The repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell supported by Americans

More Americans have been shown in polls to support the DADT policy repeal within the last few years. CNN accounts that a Pew Research poll said 58 percent of Americans wanted the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy repealed while a Cable News Network poll showed that 70 percent of Americans wanted DADT repealed. Those who responded to the survey are all that are truly analyzed by polls and statistics. This could be inaccurate for how the country as a whole feels on the subject. More individuals want the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy to go away though it seems.

Settling soon

There is a good chance this problem will come up soon. The next legislative session should consist of it. There has been a lot of argument over the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Also, whether or not homosexuals can serve is argued. Homosexuality was grounds for discharge for decades. An order came from President Truman when the military was segregated too. Racial discrimination was ended within the military then.

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ABC News

abcnews.go.com/Politics/pentagon-release-review/story?id=12270535&page=1

CNN

cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/11/30/military.gay.policy/index.html?hpt=T1