Drummer Rigby's death was met with outrage by colleagues Army personnel were initially told to stop wearing their uniforms when off-base for fear of further attacks, but the emergency rules were quickly relaxed following an outcry – with members of the military changing their social-media profiles to show them in uniform.
Some service members figured not only was their military changing, repeal could also pave the way to end DOMA, the mean-spirited Defense of Marriage Act; and just maybe repeal might help usher in marriage equality.
Even the killing of Osama Bin Laden by US special forces in Abbottabad, a military garrison town in Pakistan, did not push the military into changing its tune, which was always one of denial that it supported the Afghan Taliban.
The officers hope to spur a dialogue, in Washington and in the military, about changing the policy.
Re "The End of an Uncivil War," by Nicholas D. Kristof (column, June 11): Ivy League attitudes toward the military were changing before Sept. 11.
At Z Zegna, solar panels, inspired by the art work of Dan Flavin, were not just on the trim, military clothes — changing, iridescent effects also appeared in the fabrics themselves.
The news agency also quoted Musa Yunis, the overall commander of the assault force, as saying that all pro-Qaddafi resistance had stopped and that the loyalists had taken off their military uniforms, changing to civilian clothes to avoid arrest.
Military and Congressional politics create some roadblocks and changing military priorities throw up others.
However, research analysts more lukewarm on Lockheed have recently written to clients that they're now worried that a growing budget deficit and changing military priorities will result in budget cuts in big military programs.
Issues he handled included ending the military's don't-ask-don't-tell policy for gay service members and changing military commissions to try terrorism suspects rather than using civilian courts.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton met with about 35 Long Island military-related businesses at the Long Island Association's headquarters in Commack on Monday to discuss changing military procurement needs in the aftermath of the terrorist acts of Sept. 11.
