WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Robert Gates is foretoken troops that the law allowing gays to to plainly in the military is not officially in conclusion yet.

Though President Barack Obama has signed the law repealing the "don't ask, dont' tell" protocol, the change is not expected to be in place for a add up of months. The Pentagon issued a memo that Gates sent Wednesday tenebrosity to armed forces branch heads and other officials explaining the timing and stressing that troops can stationary run afoul of the long-lived law.

Aubrey Sarvis of the Servicemembers Lawful Defense obrazy Network says the advocacy clique has received dozens of phone calls from troops confused alongside the timing and shabby to draw up unshakeable when they may legally begin talking far the inside info that they're gay.