Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Don't Make Any Fucking Sense

Back in April, I wrote about an Iraq War veteran with a Purple Heart, Army Sgt. Robert Stout, 23, who wanted to continue his military career, even though the military wasn’t sure they wanted him. In spite of the Army having problems meeting its recruitment goals, the National Guard relaxing educational standards and age requirements, and every segment of the military upping their advertising and fighting to keep recruiters on college campuses, the military was considering turning away a heroic Army Sergeant who has courageously served his country in war because he is gay.

Well, they’re done thinking about it, and you’ll no doubt be totally unsurprised to hear they have kicked him out.

An Army sergeant from Ohio who was wounded in Iraq and wanted to remain in the military as an openly gay soldier was officially discharged Tuesday, according to an advocacy group.

Sgt. Robert Stout, 23, was awarded the Purple Heart after a grenade sent shrapnel into his arm, face and legs while he was using a machine gun on a Humvee in May 2004.

Stout, of Utica in central Ohio, told The Associated Press in April that he wanted to remain in the military and be openly gay, but that would conflict with the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

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Army officials at the Pentagon could not immediately confirm the discharge. The Army declined to comment earlier on the case other than to say that soldiers discharged under "don't ask, don't tell" typically receive honorable discharges.

I feel much safer knowing our struggling military is one less faggot today, don’t you?

(Hat tip Pam.)