Decorated Airman Anxiously Awaits New Policy on Gays - washingtonpost.com

Washington Post by Steve Vogel | Aug. 2, 2009 (News Report)

For Air Force Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach, time is running out on efforts to overturn restrictions on gays serving in the U.S. military.

The weapons system officer -- who during 18 years of service has flown combat missions in F-15E fighters and other aircraft over Afghanistan, Iraq and Bosnia, and now serves as assistant director of operations for an Air Force squadron in Idaho -- faces discharge after a civilian reported to authorities last year ... Full Story »

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 by Samuel W. Velsor IV - Aug. 3, 2009

That this man who gave his all will now lose his retirement of $50,000 a year is disgusting.

Obama has let us all down and it is a crying shame and a sham. That men like the LtCol have to lose it all is just wrong

Fehrenbach, who has nine Air Medals, including one for heroism under fire during an enemy ambush near Baghdad in 2003, intended to resign. But he changed his mind last fall with the prospect of a Barack Obama presidency.

Now he loses everything because Obama has failed to act and he got outed, now that is a crime.

The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network estimates that 326 service members have been discharged since Obama was sworn in. Fehrenbach said that when he attended a White House reception in June with representatives of the gay community, he raised the issue with Obama during a brief conversation. “We are going to get this done,” Fehrenbach said the president told him. “I had tremendous hope then, but a month has gone by and not a word.”

I do not think a thing will be done till after health care is passed or defeated either way he will not gut up now.

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