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...does not have a troop shortage; it has misdeployed the troops. The thousands of active-duty U.S. service members sitting on their duffs in Europe and Japan far exceed any alleged shortage in Iraq and Afghanistan. If the slow-moving, bureaucratic Pentagon would take the obvious step and redeploy some of those troops, there would be no talk of a shortage. Frank Bubb Boca Raton, Florida...
Yale Law School announced last week that it would not make its recruiting resources available to Pentagon officials until the military pledges to end discrimination against gay and lesbian servicemembers...
Dean Harold H. Koh ’75 told the military on Tuesday—just two days before military officials were slated to interview prospective applicants for Pentagon legal posts—that Yale Law School would no longer grant the armed forces an exemption from the school’s nondiscrimination policy...
...rights advocates had been preparing to protest the military’s presence on campus last week, said Rebecca S. Tinio ’00, a second-year Yale law student and a board member of the Student/Faculty Alliance for Military Equality (SAME). But on Thursday, with the Pentagon conspicuously absent from the group of employers conducting interviews with students, the atmosphere on campus was “joyful,” Tinio said...
...Judge Ambro had no doubt in his mind that this case was going to get Supreme Court review,” said Howard J. Bashman, an attorney representing veterans’ groups that filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of the Pentagon...