Defense Secretary Leon Panetta today opened new benefits to same-sex military couples, granting them access to services such as childcare and access to commissaries.
The new benefits come some 17 months since the repeal of the Pentagon’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. That change enabled gay military members to serve openly in the ranks, but did not open to them various benefits the heterosexual couples enjoy at military installations all over the world.
Read more here: http://blog.thenewstribune.com/military/2013/02/11/its-official-defense-secretary-opens-more-benefits-to-same-sex-military-couples/
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