DADT was repealed by Obama’s signature yesterday of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act. Questions remain on how long the process of implementation will take place, or just how much may have to be discarded (and who should do the discarding) alongside the policy during the process, and it is not known just how much of the implementation may derive from the 87-page report on the survey conducted by the top brass of the Armed Forces.
The impact in the long term within the military is harder to measure, with demands growing for a more accommodating inter-personnel culture as LGBT activists continue to follow up on the DADT repeal. But some elements of the impact of the repeal, or perhaps the larger, longer repeal of the overtly-homophobic inter-personnel culture which has existed since the days of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, may be very evident to historians and observers of military history, LGBT history and demographic statistics.
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