Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Celebrating Pride Month: Alan G. Rogers, first openly gay casualty of Operation Iraqi Freedom


Major Alan Greg Rogers, born September 21, 1967, was the first known gay combat fatality of Operation Iraqi Freedom.  He was an ordained pastor, an intelligence officer and an activist in the LGBT military community.  He was killed by an improvised explosive device in Baghdad on January 27, 2008.

It was only after his death when it was revealed that he was and had worked to end the military's "Don't Ask. Don't Tell." policy.

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