{"id":3419,"date":"2010-12-20T12:24:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T17:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3419"},"modified":"2010-12-20T16:27:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T21:27:08","slug":"gibson-acknowledges-expelling-gay-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/12\/20\/gibson-acknowledges-expelling-gay-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Gibson acknowledges expelling gay soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the political campaign, Rep.-elect Chris Gibson (R-Kinderhook) acknowledged having had personal experience with the don&#8217;t-ask-don&#8217;t-tell policy while serving as an Army officer.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview today with the public radio program <a href=\"http:\/\/thecapitolpressroom.org\/the-capitol-pressroom-for-december-20-2010\/\">Capital Pressroom hosted by Susan Arbetter<\/a>, Gibson acknowledged dismissing two soldiers under his command.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThese were soldiers that revealed their sexual orientation, and we  went through the process to eliminate them under the chapter  proceedings,\u201d he said, noting that the incidents were few and far  between in relation to his own experience and the size of the  active-duty military.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u2026 This was not a case where there was some third  party or something making an allegation; in both cases the service  member came forward and made a declaration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWere they good soldiers?\u201d Arbetter asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, you know what \u2014 I don\u2019t want to get into that description,  because you know what, for these service members they served with honor,  so why would I want to describe some of the specific details about  that, you know, whether or not one may have had some discipline issues  in the past \u2014 why would that be relevant at this point?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>NCPR will have complete coverage of the North Country reaction to the DADT repeal tomorrow morning during the 8 O&#8217;clock Hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the political campaign, Rep.-elect Chris Gibson (R-Kinderhook) acknowledged having had personal experience with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[997,4861,882,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}