Obama Told Military Leaders: Accept Gays In Military Or Step Down, Admiral Says

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In a meeting with the heads of the five service branches in 2010, President Obama offered the leaders a choice: Support my efforts to end the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, or resign, the Commandant of the Coast Guard said.

In a video obtained by BuzzFeed via a Freedom of Information Act request, Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Robert Papp revealed that Obama was unwilling to compromise with service leaders over DADT during a meeting in 2010. "We were called into the Oval Office and President Obama looked all five service chiefs in the eye and said, 'This is what I want to do.' I cannot divulge
everything he said to us, that's private communications within the Oval Office, but if we didn't agree with it - if any of us didn't agree with it - we all had the opportunity to resign our commissions and go do other things," he said

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