Word: enlisting
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When Harvard College LGBT Political Coalition administrative chair Clayton W. Brooks III ’10 was 16, he said he wanted to show support for his country by serving in the U.S. Naval Academy. But he said he would not enlist as anything other than a gay man, and so a military policy barring openly homosexual or bisexual recruits kept him away. “I wouldn’t be able to be completely honest about such an important part of who I am,” he said. “I’m prevented from...
...alliance, including the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), demanded on Tuesday that the government outlaw the Ahmadiyahs, warning that any delay would result in conflict. While falling short of calling for attacks on the group's mosques or followers - many of whom are now in hiding - the clerics threatened to enlist the help of other Muslim countries to pressure Jakarta into issuing an official decree forbidding Ahmadiyah followers from calling themselves Muslims. "They are hijacking our religion," claimed FPI leader Habib Rizieq Shihab. "This is not a case of religious freedom but insulting religion...
...young people are willing to risk sacrificing themselves for our country is something quite exceptional. Regrettably, however, these turbulent times are not the only thing that is coloring the state of the ROTC program at colleges such as ours. Currently, the United States Military prevents openly gay citizens from enlisting in the armed services, as it continues to adhere to the discriminatory institution of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.” Although born out of the Clinton years, “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell?...
...preferences for Federal jobs, and improving military daycare. "Not only are we expanding the availability of child care," Geren said, "but we're reducing the cost and looking at ways to deliver it both on post and off-post." Nowadays, it seems, Pentagon recruiters have a new adage. "You enlist an individual," they like to say, "but you re-enlist the family...
...works this way: You enlist in the army for a given term of years. Then, when it is time for your discharge, an obscure clause in your contract (which gives the military the right to compel additional services) is invoked, and back you go to the hell of Iraq. You have no right of appeal, no legal recourse. According to the press notes for Kimberly Peirce's powerful film, some 81,000 young men and women have been "stop-lossed" since the U.S. invaded Iraq five years ago, with untold numbers of them choosing to go AWOL, living underground...