But are you kidding us with this?
The 18 year air force veteran wh is highly decorated and risked his life over and over for his country is being booted just shy of retiring on a full pension because he's gay?
Some stats:
88 Combat Mission
2,100 Flying Time
1,487 Fighter Hours
400 Active Combat Hours
From the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network:
Lieutenant Colonel Victor J. Fehrenbach, a fighter weapons systems officer, has been flying the F-15E Strike Eagle since 1998. He has flown numerous missions against Taliban and al-Qaida targets, including the longest combat mission in his squadron's history. On that infamous September 11, 2001, Lt. Col. Fehrenbach was handpicked to fly sorties above the nation's capital. Later he flew combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has received at least 30 awards and decorations including nine air medals, one of them for heroism, as well as campaign medals for Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is now a flight instructor in Idaho, where he has passed on his skills to more than 300 future Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force weapons systems officers. Since 1987, when Fehrenbach entered Notre Dame on a full Air Force ROTC scholarship, the government has invested twenty-five million dollars in training and equipping him to serve his country, which he has done with what anyone would agree was great distinction.
How on earth does this serve the military or American interests?
Bull. Shit.
Obama has the authority to intervene here, and he damn well better.
Enough is enough. Whoever pursued this action is the one who should not be in the military. The U.S. military should be no place for cowards.
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