
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, July 10, 1994                   TAG: 9407100065
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: CAMP MURRAY, WASH.                                LENGTH: Short

LESBIAN COLONEL BACK IN NATIONAL GUARD JOB

Two years after Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer was kicked out of the National Guard for being a lesbian, the decorated Vietnam veteran was back at her job Saturday.

A federal court ordered her reinstatement last month, ruling her discharge based on her sexual orientation was unconstitutional. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Thursday refused to delay that order.

Cammermeyer returned to her job as chief of nursing services for the 164th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. As a regular reservist, her work obligation is two days per month and a 15-day annual training mission.

Guard commander Maj. Gen. Greg Barlow asked Cammermeyer to report to work Saturday after the appeals court rejected the Justice Department's latest effort to block her reinstatement.

Cammermeyer, 52, is a 26-year military veteran who was awarded the Bronze Star as an Army nurse in Vietnam. She was discharged involuntarily in 1992, three years after disclosing her sexual orientation in a security clearance interview. - Associated Press

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