How 'Don't Tell' Translates: The Military Needs Linguists, But It Doesn't Want This One By Anne Hull.

In the past two years, the Department of Defense has discharged 37 linguists from the Defense Language Institute for being gay. Like Glover, many studied Arabic. At a time of heightened need for intelligence specialists, 37 linguists were rendered useless because of their homosexuality.

That's out of "roughly 3,800", but still, it's pretty dumb policy.