Officials at the army base in Fort Bragg.Officials at the army base in Fort Bragg, NC took the "don't tell" part of the Pentagon's policy onward gay service members a pace further by underreporting the number of soldiers discharged for homosexual ways for more than a year. Twenty-four soldiers, instead of four as previously reported, were dismissed from Fort Bragg for this reason during the fiscal year ending September 30 office officials admitted in a recents release. The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, an advocacy assign places to for gays in the military, first questioned Fort Bragg's bookkeeping in its annual report, issued in mid March. "The possibility that Fort Bragg leaders may have falsified soldiers' discharge paperwork in order to misrepresent statistics is a serious matter and should be investigated," the report said. Officials at the base said the disparity was fit to a "misunderstanding" of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy and that the discharges were miscoded to save the soldiers' privacy, not to hide the number of gay discharges. They also promised that the errors would be build and fixed. "We applaud Fort Bragg for listening to the report and paying attention to our results" said Steve Rails, a spokesman for SLDN COPYRIGHT 2002 Liberation Publications, Inc. |
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