Fort Campbell steps up gay discharges

By David W. Shelton | August 16, 2006 |

Surprise, surprise, surprise! Fort Campbell had the second highest discharge rate in the nation of soldiers under the failed “don’t-ask-don’t-tell” policy. Clarksville’s neighboring Army base, the site of the brutal 1999 murder of Pfc. Barry Winchell, is still cashiering people out of the service at an alarming rate. According to information obtained by the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, 49 soldiers were discharged from the base. That’s up from 19 in 2004.

On a national scale, 782 were discharged, which is up from 668 in 2004. The only base that had a higher number of discharges was Ford Leonard Wood with 60. «Read the rest of this article»

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