Even though the Obama administration is appealing a federal judge’s decision striking down “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”, the Pentagon has ordered recruiters to begin accepting openly gay applicants. Are Pentagon officials just doing what the court is demanding or are they rushing into a policy change they don’t need to implement yet? Why is this controversy more about a social experiment than improving our military? How do military leaders really feel about all this? And will the government win this case on appeal? We ask Van Hipp, former deputy secretary of the Army for reserve forces and mobilization.
