Memorandum from Hubert E. Howard to the Secretary of the Army, Secretary of the Navy, and Secretary of the Air Force
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11 October 1949
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY
THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE
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SUBJECT: Discharge of Homosexuals from the Armed Services.
The Personnel Policy Board has approved the following policy with
respect to treatment and discharge of homosexuals from the Armed Services:
1.
a. Homosexual personnel, irrespective of sex, should not be
permitted to serve in any branch of the Armed Forces in any capacity,
and prompt separation of known honosexuals from the Armed Forces be made
mandatory.
b. Each branch of the Armed Forces should include information
on homosexuality in its educational program.
C. In cases involving female personnel, a female officer should
be a member of all boards.
d. A central review board for each service at Departmental
level would insure uniform action on cases of homosexuality throughout
each Department. Conferences between members of these boards would
tend to promote uniform action throughout the Armed Services. However,
it is recognized that the different Departments have administrative
problems more or less peculiar to each Service, and for this reason
the administrative details of implementing the policy outlined below
for the disposition of homosexual personnel may be at the option of
the various Departments concerned.
e.
Disposition boards shall be guided by policy outlined
as follows:
(1) Homosexual personnel coming within the purview of
this policy will fall into several categories which may OF may not
overlap, and will be more or less complicated by the facts and circunstances
peculiar to the individual case. The cases, however, are generally
classified and normal disposition presented for each class as follows:
(a) CLASS I is defined as those cases accompained
by assault or coercion as characterized by any act in or to which
the other person involved did not willingly cooperate or consent, or
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