"Troops to weigh in on ‘don’t ask’ policy; Restriction makes interviews tricky" by Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | May 20, 2010
WASHINGTON — In an effort to get around the interview catch-22, the Defense Department authorized the hiring this week of an outside contractor to confidentially gather the views of troops and their families, several Pentagon officials privy to the deliberations said.
The contractor, Westat, a Maryland research firm with experience surveying military communities, will gather information from 350,000 troops and their families, including from homosexual service members....
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And HOW MUCH is THAT going to cost so they can do a F***ING POLL?
"Pentagon defends survey on gays in military" by Washington Post | July 10, 2010
WASHINGTON — A Defense Department survey sent this week to 400,000 service members asks such provocative questions as whether its troops have shared shower facilities with a gay person or if they would be comfortable using a base commissary if their neighbors were gay.
The survey, part of what the military says is its effort to prepare for the possible integration of gays and lesbians into the armed forces, provoked immediate criticism from some human rights groups, which called the survey biased and apt to fan fears of gays in the military.
You know, like they do with Muslims Israel wants us to attack.
The unauthorized public disclosure of the $4.5 million survey and the fierce reaction to it also prompted the Pentagon to worry that the fallout could skew the results of the poll....
I'm glad you could afford it, bankrupted taxpayers of AmeriKa.
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