06-26-2024, 12:50 PM
(06-26-2024, 09:36 AM)HarleyDog Wrote: Curious question: Were some of these soldiers arrested? Using words like clemency and pardon reads as if some were? Also, I wonder what the majority of the discharge statuses were. I think dishonorable would be unfair, so hoping general.
There were thousands of dishonorable discharges if people admitted to being gay or attempting homosexual acts
Arrests and convictions did occur for people engaging and being caught in homosexual acts. Those are the approximately 2000 people getting pardoned. The pardons will forgive the convictions but can not change the discharge status. A different commission in the DOD is looking at those for everyone
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