Colonel Gary Packard and Lessons Learned from ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
How Service Academies and the Military Should be Involved in Social Policy Debates
WHO: Colonel Gary Packard served at the Pentagon as the Air Force’s writer on the Secretary of Defense’s Comprehensive Review Working Group studying the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in 2010.
Colonel Packard, professor and head of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the United States Air Force Academy, will discuss his involvement in the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal debate over the past seven years. Packard was lead author of the Air Force Academy’s white paper on the repeal.
WHAT: The USC Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans & Military Families at the USC School of Social Work hosts “How Should Service Academies and the Military Be Involved in Social Policy Debates? Lessons Learned from ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’”
WHEN: 11:30 a.m. — 1 p.m. Thursday, January 26
WHERE: USC University Park Campus, Montgomery Ross Fisher Building.
ABOUT: The Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans and Military Families at the USC School of Social Work bridges a critical gap in the needs of wounded warriors and their families through innovative education/training, research and partnerships. CIR informs policymakers, guides practitioners, builds community networks and capacity, and drives applied research toward improving the lives of community-dwelling veterans and their families. The center also gives emphasis to promising real-world interventions that have broad applicability and scalability to military-impacted communities
Contact: Eddie North-Hager at (213) 740-9335 or edwardnh@usc.edu
