Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy fight: Sam and communications staff's moral/administrative push for relief versus military, legal, and procedural constraints (institutional resistance).
Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy fight: Sam and communications staff's moral/administrative push for relief versus military, legal, and procedural constraints (institutional resistance).
Events in This Arc
Sam presents a string of concrete, legally framed examples of coerced discharges under 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' but is repeatedly talked over by Majors Thompson and Tate, who insist the …
Admiral Fitzwallace abruptly interrupts the Roosevelt Room's polite evasions and forces the room to name what they've been dancing around: they don't want gay people serving. By collapsing military euphemism …
After dismantling the room's polite evasions, Admiral Fitzwallace slips into the hallway and delivers a cold, dismissive verdict to Sam: the administration's tentative staff-level probing won't move the services. Fitzwallace's …