The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Ask,_Don't_Tell_Repeal_Act_of_2010" id="mwAcQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010">repeal</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_ask,_don't_tell" id="mwAcU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Don't ask, don't tell">Don't ask, don't tell</a> policy, the 17-year-old policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" id="mwAcY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>.<sup about="#mwt204" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-37"}}' id="cite_ref-37" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_22#cite_note-37" id="mwAcc" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 37;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAcg">[37]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-37"><cite about="#mwt201" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFJ_Ford_HuffmanTammy_S._SchultzMarine_Corps_University_Press_(U.S.)2012">J Ford Huffman; Tammy S. Schultz; Marine Corps University Press (U.S.) (3 December 2012). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4s8WlVjgCjkC&amp;pg=PT66" id="mwCMk" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwCMo">The End of Don't Ask, Don't Tell: The Impact in Studies and Personal Essays by Service Members and Veterans</i></a>. Government Printing Office. p.<span id="mwCMs" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>66. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwCMw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwCM0" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-16-091558-1" id="mwCM4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-16-091558-1"><bdi id="mwCM8">978-0-16-091558-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt201" class="Z3988" id="mwCNA" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+End+of+Don%27t+Ask%2C+Don%27t+Tell%3A+The+Impact+in+Studies+and+Personal+Essays+by+Service+Members+and+Veterans&amp;rft.pages=66&amp;rft.pub=Government+Printing+Office&amp;rft.date=2012-12-03&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-16-091558-1&amp;rft.au=J+Ford+Huffman&amp;rft.au=Tammy+S.+Schultz&amp;rft.au=Marine+Corps+University+Press+%28U.S.%29&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D4s8WlVjgCjkC%26pg%3DPT66&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+22"></span></span>