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Joe Lieberman: “One of the things that we lost or wasted when the military had to evict 14,000 people from the military because they…”

On the recordDecember 1, 2010
One of the things that we lost or wasted when the military had to evict 14,000 people from the military because they were gay or lesbian is the money we invested in training them.
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Joe Lieberman
Independent · Connecticut

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Lieberman discusses the financial loss from discharging trained servicemembers under DADT.

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