Lesbians targeted in the US Army?

Some interesting statistics at the NYT:

While women make up 14 percent of Army personnel, 46 percent of those discharged under the policy last year were women. And while 20 percent of Air Force personnel are women, 49 percent of its discharges under the policy last year were women.

By comparison for 2006, about 35 percent of the Army’s discharges and 36 percent of the Air Force’s were women, according to the statistics.

The information was gathered under a Freedom of Information Act request by the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, a policy advocacy organization.

“Women make up 15 percent of the armed forces, so to find they represent nearly 50 percent of Army and Air Force discharges under ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ is shocking,” said Aubrey Sarvis, the organization’s executive director. “Women in particular have been caught in the crosshairs of this counterproductive law.”

Incredibly, an all-too obvious explanation doesn't even occur to Ms. Sarvis; the very likely possibility that lesbian women are far more likely to be interested in a military career than gay men. If far more sign up in the first place, then far more are going to be discharged.

When you read things like this, you should also keep in mind that the vast majority of discharges for homosexuality are voluntary admissions. In other words, people who claim to be gay (some of whom aren't even gay) in order to get out of their military contracts. In fact, this was the case in every homosexual discharge that occurred in my own units in my 15 years in the military. How do I know this? Mostly because many of them openly declared that was why they had suddenly "outed" themselves. It's now an easy out, something we don't need during wartime.