You’ve probably heard of Lt. Dan Choi, a gay West Point graduate and New York National Guardsman, who was recommended for discharge after publicly coming out of the closet and becoming an advocate for the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. He’s become a very public advocate for repeal all across the media over the last year.
He’s now back on duty with his National Guard unit.
As you can read in the piece at TPMMuckraker, it doesn’t seem to stem from an explicit change of policy at the Pentagon. But it does seem like a sign of which way the winds are now blowing, and an assumption, based on last week’s events, that Choi’s discharge may never go through.
