All posts tagged "james amos"
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Marines Instruct Spouses Clubs To Admit Same-Sex Spouses or Face Eviction
The Marine Corps has instructed legal staff that spouses clubs operating on Marine bases must admit same-sex spouses or face eviction, the Associated Press reports....
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Chiefs Testify That DADT Repeal Implementation Is Proceeding Without Issue
[Photo: Gen. Peter Chairelli, vice chief of staff of the Army, testifies before the House Armed Services Committee on Thursday, April 7, 2011. (Photo by...
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House Committee to Hear From Service Chiefs Thursday About DADT Repeal Efforts
Following up on this past week’s largely uneventful House Armed Services Military Personnel Submcommittee hearing featuring Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Clifford Stanley...
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The Day After That: The Question Repeal Raises
In President Barack Obama’s “end of the year” news conference, he opened by discussing the successes of the lame-duck session of Congress. In part, he...
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Holiday Blues
I'd really like to stop writing about ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell.'' Some amount of political fatigue would be expected in any protracted battle, and if...
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Marine Chief’s Stated Concern that DADT Repeal Could Cost Lives Sparks Outrage
The Marine Corps commandant, Gen. James Amos, made it clear when testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Dec. 3 that he opposed the...
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Chiefs Provide DADT Testimony
Although the second day of Senate hearings into the Pentagon working group's report on implementation of a repeal of ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' brought some...
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Eight Days in a Changed World
During the next eight days, efforts aimed at stopping discrimination in two of the most traditionally conservative (and heterosexual) of institutions – marriage and the...
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Senate Sets Pentagon DADT Report Hearings for Dec. 2 and 3
The Senate Armed Services Committee, as had been suggested in recent days, announced that it would be holding hearings in the follow-up to the Nov....
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The Senator, the Secretary and the Service Chiefs
After the U.S. Senate failed to garner the votes needed to overcome a filibuster to proceed to debate on the National Defense Authorization Act on...
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No Time to Stop
There's a strange and unsettling mood floating around these days after the shellacking delivered to Democrats by Republicans in the midterm elections. It's not unexpected,...
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No Easy Pieces
Over the past weekend, the military leadership began weighing in on the post-election – and ever-narrowing – window for the repeal of ''Don't Ask, Don't...
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The (Military) Brass Tacks of Lame-Duck DADT Repeal
Over the weekend, the military leadership began weighing in on the post-election landscape for the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Although the decision to...
