This is not an insignificant number for those who operate under DADT policy.

The repeal act established a process for ending the DADT policy.

Meanwhile, 38% favor allowing them to serve under the current DADT policy, which is up four points from 10 years ago.

Servicemembers United said today that 14,346 people were discharged under DADT policy.

He concluded with his view of the significance of the DADT policy:

His lawsuit did not challenge the DADT policy, but asked the court to hold the military accountable for adhering to the policy's particulars.

During the 2008 presidential election, then-candidate Barack Obama promised to end the DADT policy.

"Due to this situation, West Point is unable to offer her readmission as current DADT policies remain in effect."

Mullen says he is deeply troubled by a DADT policy that forces people to "lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens."

Rogers's thesis examined how the US military's DADT policy affected recruitment and retention for military officers.

Those bums have no business being police officers and the reprehensible DADT policy once again damages loyal rule-abiding soldiers and our national defense.

Judge Christine Odell Cook Miller heard arguments in the case on September 22, 2011, two days after the end of the DADT policy.

For those asking why the Pentagon will not stop kicking people out of the military, when Obama has said he wants the law changed and the DADT policy repealed?

The institute estimated that lifting the DADT policy would attract 50,000 new entrants to the armed forces and save taxpayers huge amounts currently spent on maintaining that policy.

Rogers also attended events supporting the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), which works to end the DADT policy.

Dan Choi and Jim Pietrangelo were arrested earlier this year for handcuffing themselves to a fence outside the White House in protest of the DADT policy.

All were discharged under the DADT policy, but the ACLU said that the practice ante-dated the adoption of DADT.

Walrod said that OutServe was not interested in claiming credit for the work of other organizations and only aimed to give a voice to personnel silenced by the DADT policy.

Major legal challenges to the DADT policy include Witt v. Department of the Air Force and Log Cabin Republicans v. United States.

A statute repealing the DADT policy was enacted in December 2010, with the change in policy delayed until military and government officials certified that plans were in place for its smooth implementation.

As the DADT policy was nearing its end in September 2011, he told the New York Times he wanted to resume his Navy career, learn Persian-Farsi, and become an officer.