81. Rep. Benjamin Gilman, R-N.Y., is the primary author of the bill that is a response to service members who want the Defense Department program examined. 82. Quigley said that the three service members killed had been in the rear of the plane. 83. Retired Rear Admiral Stephen Baker, a former Navy pilot, said he has not heard major complaints about spare parts from active-duty service members. 84. Several Pentagon officials say there is evidence that some service members declare they are gay solely to leave the military with honorable discharges. 85. She designed the Southwest Asia Service Medal, awarded to every service member who participated in the Persian Gulf war. 86. Simple honesty also results in negative consequences under an idiotic policy ostensibly designed to protect homosexual service members. 87. Some commanders are bending the regulations to protect popular gay service members and others are using their latitude to drum homosexuals out unfairly, gay rights groups say. 88. Stopping the trials, moreover, would cut off promising drugs and other therapies from service members or their dependents who have HIV, the advocates said. 89. That change may help explain why the number of service members discharged for homosexuality jumped last year in the Army, Navy and Marines. 90. Terrorists overseas have killed U.S. service members by bombing military barracks. |