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Outserve Announces Its Launch, Aims To Help Pentagon With DADT Repeal Implementation

07/26/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire
Outserve has announced its launch. The organization representing lesbian and gay active duty military personnel seeks to help the Pentagon ease into its proposed policy changes. The group is headed by J.D. Smith. The name is an alias due to the fact that this officer cannot reveal his full name because he would be discharged under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. The organization actually dates back to October 2009 and was formed as an underground group called Citizens for Repeal. They have roughly 450 members, with around two dozen serving in Afghanistan and Iraq currently.

The organization’s overseas director, who is currently in Baghdad with an artillery unit, stated “We are here to fight and win wars, serve with integrity and honesty and protect the people fighting next to us. We are proud to sacrifice for the nation we love, but we have a lot of educational work to do.”

While amendments have been added to the Defense Budget Bill to repeal DADT, that bill has not been voted on by the full House or Senate, and amendments which could strip the bill of the repeal language could be offered up. It is unlikely that will happen. Once the bill is passed, President Barack Obama must then sign the bill despite threatening to veto it over what he has described as unnecessary spending. After that, President Obama, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Admiral Michael Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, must sign off on repeal after the year long study has been completed.

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