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Just reading in my sociology book Majority-Minority Relations by John E. Farley
"The ban on gay and lesbian people in the military may itself represent a threat to national security by preventing people with much-needed abilities to serve. For example during the year after September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, nine linguists, six of whom specialized in arabic, were dismissed from the US military because they were gay. This occurred at a time when the U.S. military had a shortage of linguists, needed for critical intelligence work after September 11 and in the run-up to the 2003 war in Iraq. At the time Donald Hamilton, author of a National Commission on Terrorism report to Congress on the need for linguists, stated, "We face a drastic shortage of linguists, and the direct impact of Arabic speakers is a particular problem.'"
"The ban on gay and lesbian people in the military may itself represent a threat to national security by preventing people with much-needed abilities to serve. For example during the year after September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, nine linguists, six of whom specialized in arabic, were dismissed from the US military because they were gay. This occurred at a time when the U.S. military had a shortage of linguists, needed for critical intelligence work after September 11 and in the run-up to the 2003 war in Iraq. At the time Donald Hamilton, author of a National Commission on Terrorism report to Congress on the need for linguists, stated, "We face a drastic shortage of linguists, and the direct impact of Arabic speakers is a particular problem.'"