Too bad it does not cover all the members, it only covers those 181 service members in the lawsuit.

1994: 617
1995: 772
1996: 870
1997: 1,007
1998: 1,163
1999: 1,046
2000: 1,241
2001: 1,273
2002: 906
2003: 787
2004: 668
2005: 742
2006: 623
2007: 627
2008: 619
2009: 428
2010: 261
Total: 13,650

so, basically, at one and one half percent of those discharged will be part of this settlement.

big whoop.

It's too late for earlier victims to sue.

there are many more that were not part of this lawsuit who were discharged after 2003.

like being able to transfer my benefits to the kids. Sorry, that only goes back to 2007. NOBODY - Dems or Pubs - wants to pay for it all.

and will receive back pay are very excited and appreciative of this decision. I'm happy for them!

Possibly more of those ousted by DADT will join in a lawsuit after hearing of this good news.

After nearly ten years, that's gonna amount to nice piece of change!


rocktivity

but how many were forced out before they were eligible for pensions?

I am not sure I get this. I don't really care about who is what or why and maybe there are those who would consider that a problem but hey, to each his or her own.

What I don't know, and don't understand though is what the basis of the settlement was? Is this about people who were abiding by the DADT policy that were outed against their own desires, and then discharged despite the fact that they did not tell? Or is this people who outed themselves and then were mad that they were separated from the military?

I just did not see that really defined in the article mentioned in the link in the original post.

People lost their jobs, often their careers, due to a bigoted and craptastic policy.

Is that cool with you?

I'm glad to see them at least taking a step to right the wrong done to these men and women.

much further!

Very good news. KnR

What about the thousands, like myself who were discharged, under honorable conditions, way before DADT .. if you are going to compensate these individuals from 2004 on up, then why not all of us who may have had military careers. Also it seems that it is the people in the ranks of Officers who have most to gain, not enlisted men and women. My life would have been so much more different if I never had to go through the humiliation of a ''witch hunt'' that took place on the base in which I served. It was a very scary and horrible ordeal that I have to visit over and over. It was 1977 and I was 20 years old.

Perhaps your Vet group can contact the American Civil Liberties Union, and bring another lawsuit?

They should go back to cover all military still living or families with military benefits.

There is a percentage that the recruits reason to sign up is to get the tools the millitary teaches them and use it for their own personal will such as political, racial, homophobic, religion, etc. Best case in point I can think of is the Oklahoma City Bomber who was a Gulf War vet and used his millitary teachings against the very country he served under. I know there are plenty of service people willing to work with the LGBT in service, but I wil not be surprised if I see a tragedy happen to our LGBT who serve by a fellow officer who happens to be homophobic.