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The Space and Air Force has launched an LGBTQ working group
But that wasn’t always the attitude of the Department of Defense, as Lauderback well knows. He joined the Air Force the same year the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Say” came into force. “I know firsthand what it means to work in an inclusive environment, and sometimes I would personally find it frustrating, challenging, and underestimated,” he said. “I put the desire to serve the nation above the desire to live a normal life.”
A few years later, when President Barack Obama repealed “Don’t ask, don’t say,” Lauderback wasted no time. “There was no hiding at that moment,” he said earlier in the month in a storyteller organized by the Air Force. “I’d tell whoever asked.” The removal of the policy gave him confidence because he was not