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Featuring 4 reports and 25 personal essays from diverse voices-both straight and gay-representing U.S. Marine Corps, Army, Navy, and Air Force veterans and service members, this anthology examines the impact of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and its repeal on 20 September 2011 in order to benefit policy makers, historians, researchers, and general readers.
Topics include lessons from foreign militaries, serving while openly gay, women at war, returning to duty, marching forward after repeal, and support for the committed same-sex partners and families of gay service members.
Edited by J. Ford Huffman and Tammy S. Schultz.
Who should read this?
Members of the U.S. military, policymakers at Department of Defense, Social Sciences and Culture scholars and students, National Security scholars and students, Civil Rights scholars and students, Anthropological scholars and students; and the general public.
This book includes both a report section that will be of interest to policymakers and decision makers within the U.S. military and Department of Defense and academia, but also a section of essays that will be of interest to a wider audience, including the general public. The editors’ media hits suggest that media interest is wide and diverse.
Table of Contents:
About the Nomenclature.................................................................................vi
Preface ......................................................................................................................vii
Tammy S. Schultz Acknowledgments ......................................................xiii
Introduction..............................................................................................................xvi
J. Ford Huffman and Tammy S. Schultz
Part One: The Reports ............................................................................................1
After Repeal: Lessons from Foreign Militaries .........................................2
Nora Bensahel- The Case for Military Family Readiness: Support for the Committed Same-
Sex Partners and Families of Gay Service Members ............................18
LtCol Thomas Dolan, USMC, and Cdr Randall J. Biggs, USN - An Analysis of Opinion: The Impact of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Its Repeal, and the Proposed Plan to Implement the Repeal..............................................48
Maj Darrel L. Choat, USMC -It’s Time to Redefine the Marine Warrior ...................111
Maj Alasdair B. G. Mackay, USMC -Part Two: The Essays ................................................................................................137
Introduction to the Essays...........................................................................138
J. Ford Huffman - To Think Critically and Creatively, to Dare to Know..........................................141
Col Michael F. Belcher, USMC (Ret.) -- Serving While Openly Gay: Coming Out in 1993 and Serving as a Gay Marine .................................................145
Justin Crockett Elzie -An Openly Gay Navy Officer for Four Years ............................................................148
R. Dirk Selland -Women at War: I Represent the People Whose Voices Aren’t Heard ................................152
Vernice Armour - A High Five Instead of a Kiss................................................................157
Kristen Kavanaugh - In a Combat Zone I Was Worried That I Would Be Found Out............................161
Julianne H. Sohn - Return to Duty: Gay Troops Will Continue to Conduct Themselves with Honor ..........................165
Antonio G. Agnone -I Hope to Resume My Career as an Officer and Leader..........................................169
Michael D. Almy -A Law That Said I Am Not Good Enough to Serve.................................................173
David Hall -Repeal is a Testament to the Core Values of the United States...............................176
Joseph Christopher Rocha -One of My Best Friends: Of 5,936 Floggings, Only 5 for “Homosexual Offenses” .........................................178
Mark D. Faram - Joe’s Story is the One I Tell Most Often ...............................................................183
Seth Moulton - At Ease with Myself: I Allowed Law to Compromise Honor, Courage, Commitment ........................187
Maj Darrel L. Choat, USMC -It Is Possible That Someone in the Room Is Gay......................................191
Maj Dirk Diener, USMC - Coming Out to a Fellow Marine Was No Big Deal ................................................195
Brian Fricke -“Buck Up and Serve Honorably”.................................................................199
Justin H. Johnson -After a First Salute to Two New Officers, Devastation............................................202
Ed Luna -The Moral Dilemma of Honor and Deception.........................................................206
Maj Alasdair B. G. Mackay, USMC -Investigated 17 Times in 23 Years of Service ......................................209
Kristen L. Tobin -A Legacy of the Holocaust, Normandy, and Vietnam.............................................213
Stacy J. Vasquez -Marching Forward: A Time to Empower Gay Troops to Speak for Themselves ....................................217
Lara A. Ballard - The Knife Is Out of Their Backs.................................................................................220
Michelle M. Benecke - Reactions from Indifference to Open Support .........................................................224
SFC David Cogdill, USA - The Law Magnified a Cultural Barrier ......................................................................227
Andrew Harris - Services Will Get On with the Business at Hand .....................................................230
Brendan P. Kearney - Appendix: Historical Documents ...................................................................................235
They Are Already There ..............................................................................................237
Senator Jim Webb -What the Service Chiefs Said: Statements to the Senate .........................................239
From the Commandant and the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, 28 January 2011 .............................247
Certification of Readiness to Implement Repeal, 22 July 2011 ..............................249
Contributors ......................................................................................................................251
About the Editors .............................................................................................................254
Product Details
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- 008-000-01063-3
- ISBN:
- 9780160905469
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- In Stock - Warehouse and Retail (Priced)
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- $13.50
- International Price:
- $18.90
- Publisher:
- Defense Dept., Navy, Marine Corps, Marine Corps University Press
- Huffman, J. FordSchultz, Tammy S.
- Year/Pages:
- 2012: 274 p.
- Note:
- Although this book does not have a stock number beginning with 008-055, it is a Marine Corps publication.
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- End of Dont Ask Dont TelllGays in the MilitaryLesbians in the MilitaryArmed ForcesMilitary HistoryNaval HistoryMarine Corps History
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- Item Available Date:
- 04/17/2012
- Last Status Update:
- 02/28/2013
Reviews & More About this Product
INTERVIEWS
Mark Thompson interviews the editors of "End of Don't Ask, Don't Tell" for Time Magazine online, including the controversial use of real names of the contributors. Read the Time Magazine interview >
BOOK REVIEWS
Excerpts from a review of "End of Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in the Washington Post on August 17, 2012 by U.S. Army veteran, author and academic, Brian Turner:
“The End of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” is a timely and necessary book that... goes far beyond to articulate and make fully human the toll of DADT on many military service members and their loved ones. The book suggests that, surely, if the militaries of Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and Britain have integrated homosexual service members into their ranks — in some cases going as far back as the early 1970s — we can do the same, without degrading unit cohesion and battlefield effectiveness. The editors also suggest — and rightly so — that the empirical and anecdotal data gathered here constitute a fundamental addition to our knowledge of the changing cultural and psychological climate for our military as it learns to accept openly gay personnel.
... The book is divided into two halves, with the first (“The Reports”)laying the historical and contemporary groundwork for the individual responses, and the second (“The Essays”) consisting of first-hand accounts by affected service members. It’s a logical progression, but one that burdens some sections with multiple prefaces, making the book seem as though it’s walking on academic eggshells.
An intriguing opening essay by Nora Bensahel (“After Repeal: Lessons From Foreign Militaries”) is followed by insightful ones on family readiness; an analysis of DADT and its implementation, supported by a wide-ranging series of survey tables; and a meditation on the warrior ethos (“It’s Time to Redefine the Marine Warrior,” by Maj. Alasdair B.G. Mackay).
... That said, the first half of the book — including the Mackay essay — should prove useful to academics, chroniclers and anyone else wishing to understand the issues.
In contrast, the essays in the second half of the book read more like individual narratives, though the rhetorical arc of the book can be discerned here, too... There are rough patches in some of the subsequent essays, and the editors could have been more aggressive in polishing them, although that lack of polish adds to a sense of authenticity.
A particular highlight is Seth Moulton’s “Joe’s Story Is the One I Tell Most Often.” Moulton writes: “In a place where honesty is valued above all else, [DADT] demanded dishonesty of my fellow gay service members. It’s hard to think of a more fundamental contradiction in policy in our modern military.” In “Buck Up and Serve Honorably,” Justin H. Johnson argues, “Although homosexuality may be ‘incompatible’ with a person’s moral code, it is not incompatible with military service.” This is one of the most crucial — and effective — points made in the book.
At a time when the first portside kiss in Virginia Beach for the U.S.S. Oak Hill was awarded to a gay couple (via a ship-wide raffle); when gay pride groups are beginning to appear at U.S. military academies; and when the Pentagon is hosting gay pride events, the editors of “The End of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” are to be commended. The book supplies an invaluable overview of a vital social and institutional issue. More important, the editors have developed an argument that leads, inexorably, to a repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act. Certainly, it can be argued, if gay service members are willing to fight and die in the defense of their country, they deserve the full rights and privileges afforded to the heterosexual men and women who serve alongside them.