DADT Opponent: Aubrey Sarvis, executive director, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network

Army veteran and South Carolina native Aubrey Sarvis served as staff director and chief counsel to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation before joining SLDN in 2007, an “organization dedicated to ending discrimination against and harassment of military personnel affected by ‘don’t ask, don’t tell.’” Sarvis has said the repeal is now about “the follow up, it’s about the specifics, and it’s about a time line.” Sarvis will continue to serve as a watchdog on the issue, prodding Congress and military officials to bring the repeal to fruition.

Quotes For Repeal

"I believe Gates and Mullen will announce a protracted process. Will this just be the old, classic Washington way of doing business?" — February 2, 2010, in an interview with The Washington Post

"We very much need a sense of urgency to get this done in 2010. We call on the president to repeal the archaic 1993 law in his defense budget currently being drafted, that is probably the only and best-moving bill where DADT can be killed this year." — January 28, 2010, responding to Obama's State of the Union address