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DoD About-Face: Gay Soldiers Can Bring Partners to Family Events

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

A member of the New Hampshire National Guard will be allowed to attend an upcoming Yellow Ribbon event with her same-sex partner, Defense Department officials said Wednesday.

Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, who returned recently from a deployment in Kuwait and made headlines when she came out in the national media following repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” said earlier this week that she was not authorized to bring her partner of 11 years to a required-attendance Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program event.

On Tuesday, New Hampshire senator Jeanne Shaheen sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta regarding the matter and urged the department to “allow same-sex couples to participate in all future DOD family events.”

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Pentagon to Determine Which Benefits to Offer Partners of Gay Troops

Saturday, July 23rd, 2011

Possible benefits that could be afforded to service members with same-sex partners will be the “the largest piece” of what the Pentagon intends to examine in the 60 days before “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is off the books, according to DOD officials.

Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Steven Hummer, chief of staff of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Repeal Implementation Team, identified benefits Friday as among the policies “important to the department and service members” and said they’ll be examined before and after the military’s gay ban has been lifted.

“The department will continue to study existing benefits to determine those, if any, that should be reviewed based on policy, fiscal, legal and feasibility considerations, to give the service member the discretion to designate persons of their own choosing as beneficiaries,” Hummer said.

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Same Sex Partners of DOD Teachers Now Eligible for Joint Transfers

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

A new Department of Defense policy will make same-sex teaching couples eligible for joint job transfers at Department of Defense schools.

The policy, meant to protect couples from separation during reassignments, was already available to heterosexual married teachers, but an attempt to extend the benefit to gay teachers by the department’s Education Activity, which runs the United States military schools for the children of service members stationed overseas, and two unions representing the teachers in those schools, had been initially rejected by officials at the DOD, who said such an accommodation violated the 1993 Defense of Marriage Act, which prohibits the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages.

“The department supports extending federal benefits to same-sex partners of federal civilian employees, but it must do so consistent with governing federal laws,” said a DoD statement.

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