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Report: Gays in military don't hurt morale or discipline

A new study by retired U.S. military officers has concluded that the ban on openly gay service members is counterproductive and should end.

The nonpartisan study group has a combined century and a half of military service from all four branches of the military, and it marks the first time a Marine Corps general has ever called publicly for an end to the gay ban.

"I believe this should have been done much earlier," said Hugh Aitken, a U.S. Marine Corps brigadier general, one of the authors of the report.

The Palm Center, a research institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara, commissioned the report. The officers reached their findings independently and required a written pledge ...

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