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ANNAPOLIS, MD. (AP) -- Officials at the nation's major military academies say repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy won't cause any fundamental changes in daily operations at the schools, and students say they are welcoming and ready for a positive and uneventful transition.
The 18-year-old policy ends Tuesday, allowing gays to serve openly.
In interviews with students at the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Air Force Academy, midshipmen and cadets say the issue of homosexuality is not a flashpoint of controversy for many members of their generation. Academy students who were not yet in their teens when the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks happened and have grown up in a nation at war say competence and character are what matter to them, not sexual orientation.
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