Monday, February 11, 2013
About 20 benefits will be extended to same-sex spouses across the military, reports say.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta on Monday officially extended benefits to the military's same-sex spouses and to unmarried partners of gay soldiers, according to an NBC news report. Some of the privileges will include child-care services, member-designated hospital visits and the issuing of military ID cards, which will give same-sex spouses and partners access to on-base shopping at both the Post Exchanges and commissaries, movie theaters and fitness facilities. The federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) still will not authorize over 85 other benefits available to married spouses. Two of the bigger benefit issues that have affected gay couples at Fort Bragg have been medical and dental benefits, and death benefits. In January, Fort …
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Ashley Broadway has two reasons to celebrate this weekend.
Last month brought news of the Fort Bragg Officer Spouse's Club denying admission to a same-sex spouse, Ashley Broadway. On Friday, Jan. 25, Broadway's name was revealed as Fort Bragg's Military Spouse of the Year to represent the Army Branch, alongside other military spouses vying for the title sponsored by Military Spouse Magazine. Broadway won the title through online voting and will now advance to the Army spouse of the year and military spouse of the year competitions. As fate would have it, hours after the announcement, Fort Bragg's OSC sent out a statement offering Broadway and other same-sex spouses with certified marriage certificates full membership to the club. According to a Stars and Stripes news report Broadway said she was “…
Sunday, January 20, 2013
A decision has been reached and offered to Ashley Broadway.
Board members with the Fort Bragg officers’ spouses’ club announced Thursday night that they are willing to issue gay spouse Ashley Broadway and others like her a “special Guest Membership” to their club after originally denying her admittance because she is not a DoD ID card holder. “In a continued attempt to support all military families, the (Association of Bragg Officers’ Spouses) Board would like to offer Ms. Broadway a special Guest Membership,” the statement released late tonight said according to a Spouse Buzz news report. Since the "don't ask, don't tell" law took effect 14 months ago, the Defense Department has kept in place policies that bar spouses of same-gender couples from having military identification cards, shopping on …
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
The Department of Defense General Counsel is reviewing the much publicized conflict
According to the Association of Bragg Officer Spouses website, they were founded upon four principles: Charity, Friendship, Hospitality, and Support. Fort Bragg's social and service organization for officer's spouses has done many great things for the community, but is their decision to oust a same-sex officer's spouse wishing to apply for membership going against what they are built on? Although the Army still considers same-sex married couples 'single' for benefits and entitlement purposes, should the group's cornerstone principles be revamped? In Sunday's Fayetteville Observer report a well written opinion piece on the group discriminating against Ashley Broadway (see photo), a newly married Army spouse, also made national headlines …
S Stevens
8:51 pm on Saturday, March 9, 2013
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