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Military Expert Moskos Dies

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: June 4, 2008

CHICAGO - Sociologist Charles Moskos, an expert on the attitudes of servicemen and women who helped formulate the "don't ask, don't tell" policy toward gay people in the military, has died.

The retired Northwestern University professor died of cancer Saturday at his home in Santa Monica, Calif., his family said. He was 74.

His surveys on military personnel issues, such as morale and recruitment trends, made him widely quoted in the news media, but he was best known for the advice to the Joint Chiefs of Staff that led to "don't ask, don't tell."

Under the policy, passed by Congress in 1993 in the early months of the Clinton administration, gay people are allowed to serve in the military, but they are prohibited from engaging in homosexual activity or talking about their sexual orientation.

The Associated Press

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