A conservative military watchdog has released a report debunking the claim by radical homosexual activists who argue that military personnel losses due to homosexuality pose a "threat to national security."
Homosexual activists who campaign for lifting the ban on homosexuals serving in the U.S. military repeatedly argue that the almost 13,000 discharges for homosexuality that have occurred since 1994 have nearly crippled the all-volunteer force. Elaine Donnelly is president of the Center for Military Readiness, which has published newly released Defense Department figures documenting military discharges in the past five fiscal years. Those statistics, she says, show the same pattern evident in the previous decade -- that discharges due to homosexuality affect a minuscule number of troops and represent less than one percent of personnel losses that occur for other legitimate reasons. "The number and percentage of discharges for reasons of homosexuality are less than one percent," says Donnelly. "If you look at the numbers for all discharges, it is 0.337 percent." According to Donnelly, there are far more discharges for issues of pregnancy, for example. "There are three times as many of those," she shares. "There are more than four times as many discharges for weight standard violations, [and] there are seven times more discharges due to drugs." The military watchdog says the Defense Department confirms that most losses due to homosexual conduct occur among junior personnel with very little time in the military -- and the great majority of homosexual discharges are uncontested and processed administratively, with 98 percent receiving honorable discharges.
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